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  City of Leeds -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
For information on the city itself, see (A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England; a center of the clothing industry) Leeds, the district's principal settlement, from which it takes its name.
It is named after its major settlement, (A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England; a center of the clothing industry) Leeds, which is also the administrative seat.
To the south and west, the borders of the district cover mostly urban and suburban areas.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ci/city_of_leeds.htm   (476 words)

  
 Leeds City Council
Leeds City Council is seeking lottery funding for a £26m project to build a museum at the Leeds Institute building and an educational resource centre near Clarence Dock.
Leeds City Council is to consider plans from non-profit organisation LABC to develop a £8m youth and sports complex in Burmantofts, including ice rink and sports arena.
Leeds City Council is to consider plans from Clugston for the £13m redevelopment of the historic Stonebridge Mills in Farnley into a supermarket, offices and homes.
www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /lel87909.htm   (448 words)

  
 EUROPA - Environment - Emas - Training Material and Case Studies - EMAS Toolkit for small organisations - RESOURCES: ...
Leeds City Council's Environmental Policy builds on the commitments made in the 1991 'Green strategy' and provides the principles and framework for integrating environmental concerns into the day-to-day work of the City Council.
Leeds City Council is committed to developing long-term strategies which aim to provide all citizens with the fullest possible range of social, economic and cultural opportunities.
Leeds City Council aims to continually improve its environmental performance and integrate the various disciplines which have the most significant impacts into a management system which can be externally verified.
www.inem.org /new_toolkit/comm/environment/emas/toolkit/toolkit_4_3_12.htm   (958 words)

  
 House of Commons - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions - Written ...
The gap between the achievement of Pakistani/Bangladeshi pupils and the Leeds average increased in 2002 by 6%, from 9% in 2001, missing the LPSA target of 12.5% by 2.5%.
However whilst the City Council failed to achieve the LPSA targets on reporting racial harassment incidents in 2002-03, the authority has a clearly outlined timetable to engage in detailed analysis of the target to identify rectifying actions.
Leeds City council Corporate Management Team will be instrumental in addressing the deficiencies to ensure the city is well placed in meeting the target in future years.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmodpm/45/45we06.htm   (2984 words)

  
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Leeds City Council (LCC) is an authority which has an outstanding record in city centre regeneration, is the provider of many sound and some excellent services and has capable and committed frontline staff.
LCC has ensured that the production of its corporate and other plans are all underpinned by the overall Leeds vision which is "to bring the benefits of a prosperous, vibrant and attractive city to all the people of Leeds".
LCC needs to ensure, as its vision indicates, that the needs in these less prosperous areas are taken account of, and that their residents feel that they have had their share of the success associated with the city centre.
www.idea.gov.uk /lgip/reviews/leeds.htm   (910 words)

  
 LEDA Measure: Licensing accessible taxis
Leeds City Council is the licensing authority for taxis and private hire cars (8 seats or less).
The lack of any accessible public transport alternative means that it is politically very difficult for the City Council to restrict parking for disabled drivers in their central zone, which also means that they must retain vehicular access.
The Council received a report on this issue in 1998 and decided to issue 40 additional hackney taxi licences each year for 5 years, with the provision that the vehicles used must be wheelchair accessible.
www.leda.ils.nrw.de /database/measures/meas0434.htm   (720 words)

  
 Leeds City Credit Union
In 1986, at the instigation of the Leader of the Council, George Mudie, now MP for Leeds East, and Councillor Paul Truswell, now MP for Pudsey, a feasibility study was undertaken on the establishment of a Credit Union for employees of Leeds City Council.
With the changes to Leeds City Council reflecting Compulsory Competitive Tendering and the removal of Further Education Colleges from the Council’s control, changes had to made to the Common Bond of L.C.C.E.C.U. To reflect these changes in October 1996 a new Common Bond was registered covering a number of city employers.
Leeds City Credit Union Ltd continues to grow and develop new services for its members and employs professional staff to look after the needs of the growing membership.
www.leedscitycreditunion.co.uk /content.asp?section=56   (332 words)

  
 Leeds Civic Trust - The City Council Elections 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The outcome of negotiations between the politicians is that for the next two years (the next elections will be held in 2006) the city is to be run by a coalition of the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives and the Greens, with a combined total of 53 seats.
The Vision for Leeds II (2004 to 2020), which is about to be launched after extensive public consultation, is recognised by central government as the key document guiding future Council policy.
With the arrival of NOC (no overall control) on Leeds City Council the city has entered the era when widespread partnership and extensive public consultation has become not merely preferable but an essential feature of decision making.
www.leedscivictrust.org.uk /news0407Elections.htm   (502 words)

  
 City of Leeds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article discusses the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds.
For information on the city itself, see Leeds.
It is named after its major settlement, Leeds, which is also the administrative seat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/City_of_Leeds   (161 words)

  
 EUROPA - Environment - Emas - Training Material and Case Studies - EMAS Toolkit for small organisations - CASES: Local ...
Leeds City Council has had a Green Strategy since 1991 and has been EMAS-registered since 2002.
Morevover, paper recycling schemes are widespread at Council offices and the Council’s IT Department is using the services of a charity which provides training and employment to disabled people for the recycling and refurbishing of its computers and other IT equipment.
The City Council also has an active information and communication policy, in order to promote environmental awareness among residents as well as its own employees.
www.inem.org /new_toolkit/comm/environment/emas/toolkit/cases/cases_30.htm   (201 words)

  
 LEEDS STEPS UP EFFICIENCY WITH GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Leeds City Council is the UK’s second largest Metropolitan Borough serving a population of 700,000.
Leeds was under pressure to meet these timescales and needed to cut processing times in order to reduce costs and avoid a backlog.
The Leeds Initiative, the Local Strategic Partnership for the city, is also using ESRI GIS as the main means of pinpointing the areas of greatest deprivation within the Leeds Metropolitan District boundary, and providing the evidence necessary to put neighbourhood renewal schemes into action.
www.publicnet.co.uk /publicnet/fe030711.htm   (1457 words)

  
 University of Leeds | Campus map | Leeds City Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Leeds station connects us with all major UK cities and has regular services to a huge amount of locations.
Leeds is served by two major airports, in the form of Leeds Bradford and Manchester.
Download a copy of the Leeds City Council cycling map or find out more about the University Bicycle Users Group.
tldynamic.leeds.ac.uk /leisure/city_centre.htm   (434 words)

  
 Leeds City Council
The terms and conditions of employment are covered by existing collective agreements embodied in the Joint National Council’s agreement on pay and conditions of service, subject to local variations contained within the local conditions of service.
Leeds City Council has a comprehensive flexible-working scheme and family friendly policies available to all employees to encourage work-life balance.
The Council supports the system of collective bargaining in every way and believes in the principle of discussion and agreement on employment matters.
www.tribalresourcing.com /graspit/t-c.htm   (256 words)

  
 Siebel impresses Leeds Council - Personal Computer World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The council has been using Siebel's eGovernment software in its housing benefit call centres and in a number of drop-in centres across the city.
The success of the project has convinced the council to look at ways of extending its use of Siebel, including efforts to develop electronic social care records that can be linked with similar schemes under development in the NHS, said Wainwright.
Leeds City Council is currently using Siebel Service, Partner Relationship Management, and Employee Relationship Management components of the company's eGovernment range.
www.pcw.co.uk /vnunet/news/2120210/siebel-impresses-leeds-council   (454 words)

  
 Performance boost for education in Leeds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The company set up by Leeds City Council to run education support services in the city has made very good progress and is performing very well, according to a recent evaluation.
Education Leeds was set up in April 2001 and is wholly owned by Leeds City Council. The not-for profit company is a strategic partnership between the council and Capita.
Education Leeds is the company, wholly owned by Leeds City Council, and run as a strategic partnership between the Council and Capita since April 2001.
www.capita.co.uk /Group/MediaCentre/PressReleases/Performance_boost_for_education_in_Leeds.htm   (415 words)

  
 NME.COM - News - LEEDS FESTIVAL GETS GREEN LIGHT FOR TEMPLE NEWSAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
LEEDS FESTIVAL organisers the MEAN FIDDLER have been given the go-ahead to hold the CARLING WEEKEND event at TEMPLE NEWSAM PARK again this year, despite concerted opposition from local residents, MPs and police.
The decision by Leeds City Council licencing committee comes after the Mean Fiddler were also given permission for the event at Bramham Park, and they will now decide within the next 24 hours which location to stage the festival at.
In granting the provisional public entertainment licence, the council attached the condition that there must be no campsite fires, and stewards must patrol the campsite to ensure that music played in tents does not disturb local residents.
www.nme.com /news/105046.htm   (671 words)

  
 Familia: Leeds City Council
Leeds, 1832, 1835, 1837, 1841, 1847, 1852, 1857, 1859, 1865, 1868
Coverage is incomplete and dates from the 1950s onwards, but the index includes references to some volumes of newscuttings of Leeds obituaries and items on local people, from c.1890 to 1920, and to individual entries in printed pedigrees of Yorkshire families.
Microfilms and microfiches include some original registers and bishop's transcripts at the Leeds office of the West Yorkshire Archives Service, the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research at York, and the Yorkshire Archaeological Society.
www.familia.org.uk /services/england/leeds.html   (596 words)

  
 University of Leeds - City and Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Leeds is a prosperous, commercial, industrial and manufacturing city, and is also the cultural and sporting centre for much of the region.
Leeds is a 'green' city, proud of its parks and open spaces, including Woodhouse Moor, close to the University and Roundhay Park and the Temple Newsam estate near the City Centre.
Leeds City Art Gallery offers a wide variety of exhibitions and also houses the new, internationally famous Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture.
www.leeds.ac.uk /intro/city.htm   (595 words)

  
 Leeds City Council - Vacancies in Leeds City Council
Leeds City Council is the largest employer in the City, employing about 32,000 people.
With such a large work-force the Council has many opportunities in a wide range of occupations.
Closing Dates - The Council advertises its vacancies against given closing dates and, therefore, application forms must be received prior to this.
www.leeds.gov.uk /vacancies   (567 words)

  
 CYCLING IN LEEDS SECONDARY SCHOOLS
In Leeds pupils generally have a short journey to school (87% under 3 miles) and 53% walk to school.
One conclusion is that although a lot of resources are put into training children to cycle on the roads (The council now trains more than any other body in Leeds) children are not making journeys on their bikes and seeing them as a means of transport.
Leeds City Council is committed to addressing the problems caused by the increasing dependence on the car as a means of transport.
www.spokes.org.uk /oldsite/leeds1.htm   (2038 words)

  
 For Leeds City Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Council policy is that there should be no part of Leeds where people would chose not to live.
Sufficient resources are not being spent, yet the Council receive direct payment from Central Government to replace the Council Tax (that is no longer paid by the houses that have been taken out of coummunity use by landlords, and filled with students).
Under the Human Rights Act the Council is liable to be prosecuted as a public body, for not protecing the rights of residents.
www.healheadingley.org.uk /intro/council.htm   (360 words)

  
 Leeds City Council
The first-ever permanent big screen in Leeds city centre will be officially switched-on tonight.
Leeds Rhinos mascot Ronnie the Rhino, Santa, Circus Zanni and a mystery guest will be switching Pudsey Christmas lights on outside Pudsey Leisure Centre from 6:50pm this evening.
Leeds City Council have given the green light to bus priority proposals aimed at reducing congestion and pollution along one of the busiest commuter routes into the city centre.
www.leeds.gov.uk   (179 words)

  
 Bardsey Mast Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The statutory notice inviting comments to the planning proposal was apparently displayed on the A58 (60 mph, double white lines!!) and it seems the deadline for objections expired on the 2nd June.
Leeds City Council have acknowledged that public consultation was inadequate.
Drive along the A58 towards Leeds, past Hetchell view there is a field (guess whose field!!) the next trees form a copse that overlooks Hetchell View.
members.aol.com /Bardseymasts/page9.htm   (351 words)

  
 Leeds City Council scoops technology Oscar | The Register
Leeds City Council has scooped the tenth annual Socitm Excellence in IT award for a new mobile working initiative for its Social Services and Home Care workers.
Doug Sutherland, Leeds council's head of corporate business relationship management (really, that is his job title), says that the project has improved staff morale as well as efficiency.
He estimates that the council's 1,700 carers look after more than 6,000 clients, and in so doing, used to have to fill in upwards of two million pieces of paper every year.
www.theregister.co.uk /2005/10/19/tech_oscars   (467 words)

  
 Modern apprenticeships - Leeds City Council
Leeds City Council operates programmes for both Foundation and Modern Apprentices.
The Council's Flagship Training Programme (FTP), established in 1997 in order to improve the numbers of young people employed by Leeds City Council, now learners in Administration, Sports and Leisure, Care, Early Years Care and Horse Care.
Leeds City Council's Department of Training also has Foundation Apprenticeships in Construction Skills such as Bricklaying, Joinery, Painting and Decorating, Plastering as well as Horticulture and Horse Care.
www.lg-employers.gov.uk /recruit/mas/leeds.html   (211 words)

  
 BITC - Leeds City Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The council see it as imperative to their business objectives that they implement sustainable procurement practices.
One way in which the council ensure sustainable procurement is their communication awareness schemes.
For example the council has consistently reduced its consumption of energy – by nearly 37MWh in 2002/2003, reducing their Carbon Dioxide emission by 2% in the same period.
www.bitc.org.uk /resources/case_studies/lcc_case_study.html   (311 words)

  
 UK & Leeds Information. Uk and foreign Hotels, Flights, Travel and Holidays
The City of Leeds is now one of Europe's most vibrant cities, it's the largest city in West Yorkshire, and the the third largest city in the UK after London and Birmingham.
The City of Leeds has now diversified from the woolen and Ready made clothing industry, to a thriving prosperous commercial, industrial tourist and entertainment centre.
Living in the centre of Leeds by the river it is very noticeable to see the increasing change from riverside warehouses to living accommodation.
www.leeds-uk.com   (902 words)

  
 NOVELL: Novell Signs One of its Largest Ever UK Contracts with Leeds City Council
Leeds City Council provides a broad range of services for citizens including housing, education, financial and social services.
Anthony Burnham, Programme Manager for Leeds City Council picks up the story, saying that; “From a technical perspective, we have over 300 offices around the region with many different departments and found we were running up to 850 different applications across 140 servers.
Leeds City Council has adopted an innovative web services platform that is helping improve productivity internally and will provide a secure, effective interface for citizens and their local authority.”
www.novell.com /offices/emea/uk/news/press/leeds.html   (1006 words)

  
 Leeds City Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
City Council Meetings are the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month unless otherwise announced.
The Leeds City Council is comprised of 5 elected officials each representing their own district, and elected by the citizens of the district.
Each Council Member is listed in the local phone directory, and email and information links are provided at their pages to the left.
www.leedsalabama.com /city_council.htm   (242 words)

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