Barwick-in-Elmet and Scholes Parish Council

Barwick-in-Elmet and Scholes Parish Council This is the official page of Barwick-in-Elmet and Scholes Parish Council. It is run by volunteers

The Parish Council is charged with looking after the best interests of the villages and is involved with planning applications, street lighting, maintaining public areas including roads and footways and assisting community groups, as well as influencing county, regional and Government decisions that affect the area. Although operational responsibility for crime control lies with the police, the Pa

rish Council monitors events closely through monthly crime reports and works with the police to ensure that the community is a safe and pleasant place in which to live. A separate committee of the council is charged with reviewing planning applications and making recommendations to Leeds City Council Planning Department regarding their progression. Current planning applications can be viewed on the Leeds City Council website. Local clubs and associations are financially independent of the Parish Council and manage their own affairs. However, where appropriate the council will support these groups with financial grants and logistical support to assist these community groups to flourish.

02/04/2026

This evening I took my little girl to the Barwick playground about 6pm, a young boy was playing football on Jack heaps. Without being asked, He picked up a load of plastic drinks bottles , crisp packets and some other rubbish off the playing field and put them in the bin, then when back and got more. I said what a wonderful thing he had done. He began to make a polite conversation and asking how old my little girl was and her name. He was such a polite and well mannered young man.

At times we see many complaints about children in our area, sometimes casting a negative image on our young residences and I wanted to share this with the community to highlight that we also have some wonderful children and young adults in our community and they should be celebrated and applauded for their positive contributions to our community.

Thank you again to that young man for his effort to keep Jack heaps free from rubbish.

Huge Thank you to everyone who helped with the tree planting project this last month our planting for the 2025 season is...
11/12/2025

Huge Thank you to everyone who helped with the tree planting project this last month our planting for the 2025 season is now finished. We had the children from Barwick in Elmet Primary School plant up on Tower Hall and Barwick Allotment and 90 children from year 6 Scholes Primary Scholes come and plant on Scholes lodge field. We could not have done it with out them and great to see some many young people out protecting their environment! Thank you again!

01/12/2025
Huge Thank you to the Volenteers that came out to help plant this afternoon, the response from the community has been re...
22/11/2025

Huge Thank you to the Volenteers that came out to help plant this afternoon, the response from the community has been really good so thank you for your support in helping to protect our green spaces.

19/11/2025

At 1pm on Tower Hall Field we will be out planting some trees with the Barwick Cubs, weather permitting. Bring your spades and wrap up warm! if any one wishes to join the planting please email [email protected]

BIG thank you to the people who emailed yesterday and came out to help do some planting this morning. If you would like ...
08/11/2025

BIG thank you to the people who emailed yesterday and came out to help do some planting this morning. If you would like to help plant some trees and help protect our local area please email [email protected] or watch out for Facebook posts for the days that we will be out in the fields.

The Barwick and Scholes Tree Planting Project 2025/26 Is Now underway. We Have 200 new trees that need planting across o...
07/11/2025

The Barwick and Scholes Tree Planting Project 2025/26 Is Now underway. We Have 200 new trees that need planting across our local area and we need your help as a community! If you want to join in please contact [email protected], contact us on Facebook or just look out for the posts on the day of when we will be out planting.

For anyone who has dash cam footage of people driving dangerously, the police now have a independent portal to submit th...
07/11/2025

For anyone who has dash cam footage of people driving dangerously, the police now have a independent portal to submit this evidence. please use the link below.

Op Snap and the Safer Roads Media Submissions service is a response to increasing submissions of video and photographic evidence relating to driving offences that members of the public have witnessed. Using this platform members of the public can upload dashcam / head cam/ bike cam footage for the p...

19/09/2025

Remembrance Day is Sunday 9th November 2025. Full details in the newsletter

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