Children’s Play Areas Get £9.5 Million Revamp
Kirklees is already providing twice the number of children’s play areas per head of population as Leeds and Bradford combined. With 343 children’s play areas comes a big maintenance cost – and Kirklees has been working for the last 2 years to determine how to provide the best facilities while also keeping control of the costs. On […]
Dewsbury Strategic Development Framework 2018 – Vision or Vapour?
The Dewsbury Strategic Development Framework 2018 (Snappy title, eh? let’s call it the SDF), was approved by Kirklees Council as their vision for Dewsbury until 2025 in January this year.This is probably the most important plan actually approved in Cabinet for the regeneration of Dewsbury for several decades.Yet apart from a brief flurry of interest […]
Heritage Action Zone Consultation
The council together with Historic England would like to hear your opinion as well as ask for your help in a Dewsbury Heritage Action Zone consultation on Wednesday 21st November between 10am and 3pm when they will have a stall in the market. What happens in the Heritage Action Zone is going to play a large […]
Grant Support For Young People In Dewsbury
Does your child have some aptitude, ambition or need that you can’t afford to pay for – but a grant would make possible? A musical aptitude but you can’t afford an instrument for them to play? Or a skill they want to pursue but you can’t afford the equipment or there is no provision in […]
The Ripper’s Story
A ripper and a rugby player – you can read about the figures standing in Northgate representing Dewsbury’s past in our post entitled Flirting with the Past. But the human story that follows, told by a local resident about a local family, that emerged as the result of that post is even more fascinating. […]
Events & Festivals
Dewsbury has a number of groups and organisations arranging events, both community based and commercial. However, these tend to be focused on the specific aims of the individual organisation and with grant funding from the council drying up there is now an absence of events in Dewsbury to draw people together in the town. With a […]
Dewsbury Riverside
Will Dewsbury Riverside make a positive contribution to the future of Dewsbury? Dewsbury Riverside is a major residential development planned for the south of Dewsbury and is one of the cornerstones of the North Kirklees Growth Zone – together with an industrial development at Chidswell. The 106 page Dewsbury Riverside Delivery Framework was published recently by Miller […]
The Devil’s Knell
Black Tom, the name of the tenor bell hung in Dewsbury Minster, is rung every Christmas Eve in a tradition known as the Devil’s Knell dating back to 1434. A local knight, Thomas de Soothill, is reputed to have fallen into a rage on hearing that a servant boy had failed to attend church that week. He […]
Flirting With The Past Statues
This pair of statues were unveiled beside the railway arches in Northgate on 1st February 2005 by Mike Stephenson, rugby league player and later Super League commentator. Funded by Binks Executive Homes, Kirklees Metropolitan Council and LPSA they were intended to commemorate two of the most evocative aspects of Dewsbury’s past,The commemorative slab let into the […]
Dewsbury Regeneration – Green Shoots?
Not for the first time we’ve recently seen new hoardings go up around Pioneer House – so thought it would be useful to take a look at how things are developing on the Dewsbury regeneration front. Wherever you see an image you can click on it for a larger view.A Kick-Start For Regeneration?Is Dewsbury Learning Quarter […]
