Red Hall Playing Fields

15/01/2026

We're into the last day you can send a response objecting to Leeds taking these fields from the public.

If you can spare two minutes to object to a much-loved green space in public hands since 1937 being turned over to developers, please do.

Leeds City Council is taking these fields from you over Christmas Dec 25, 2025 Merry Christmas! Leeds City Council thinks that while you’re enjoying your turkey, you’ll be too busy to notice that they’re planning to extinguish the statutory trust in which the fields are held for public recreat...

25/12/2025

24/12/2025

Happy Christmas to everyone who uses and enjoys Red Hall Playing Field. This appropriation consultation is the final stage that the Council is legally obliged to go through ahead of selling the field for development. We've been through a lot of rounds of consultation over the years - some are more well advertised than others - this one might be the last...

Notices relating to the intended appropriation or disposal of land used as public open space or for recreational purposes.

07/09/2025

Campaigners are asking locals to put pen to paper and take part in a consultation to prevent a local green space from being redeveloped.

29/08/2025

The future of Red Hall Playing Fields matters to our community 🎗 Leeds City Council wants to allocate the fields for housing. There's a new consultation open—and you only have until 15 September 2025 to comment. Let the council know how important this green space is to all of us!

Link in comment below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Comment on the plan now

15/07/2025

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/red-hall-shadwell-horticultural-nursery-sale-5224280

The sale of the council’s former horticultural nursery for housing is set to go ahead at a reduced price.

01/12/2024

17/09/2023

Last night our guests set fire to the toilets provided to them. We have had criminal damage, noise nuisance, vandalism, threats, theft, arson, fly tipping, littering, defecation, driving heavy vehicles up a cycle lane, the digging up of trees planted with public money, drunken parties at 4am. We are lucky no-one has been seriously injured. Police still refuse to use section 60 powers to move them on.

Come to the the Whinmoor PACT forum and make your feelings known to councillors and local police: Wednesday 20 September 2023, 6.00pm, at: Fieldhead Carr Community Centre, Naburn Approach, Whinmoor, Leeds, LS14 2EG

05/04/2023

The planning application for the Red Hall site including Red Hall Playing Fields has been updated on the Leeds City Council website.

31/08/2022

Details here about the forum meeting later today about all the plans

🏘️ NEXT WEDNESDAY: EAST LEEDS EXTENSION FORUM

⏰ 17:00-18:00, Wednesday 31st August
📍 Community Centre, 65 Gardens LS14 5LS

You are invited to the next East Extension (ELE) Consultative Forum to discuss progress with the development plans since June, joined by Leeds City Council and the housebuilders.

The scheme proposes up to 5,000 new homes to be built on the inside of the East Orbital Road (ELOR), covering Red Hall, , Swarcliffe and .

Read more at www.leeds.gov.uk/ELE and email [email protected] to be added to the mailing list.

Cllr Matthew Robinson for Harewood ward
Councillor Ryan Stephenson

23/02/2022

A rainbow over the fields!

13/01/2022

Planning application details for Red Hall house conversion to a hospital are viewable here