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MAJOR plans designed to reduce flood risk for communities along the River Aire have been given the go-ahead by councillors in Leeds. At a meeting today, Leeds City Council’s city plans panel approved the construction of a flood storage area between Horsforth and Rawdon. Led by Leeds City Council in partnership with the Environment Agency, Bradford Council, Network Rail and Yorkshire Water, the storage area project is part of an extensive programme of work that will reduce flood risk for 1,048 homes and 474 businesses along a 14km stretch of the River Aire upstream of Leeds train stati...

PLANS for the next step of a major flood alleviation scheme will go before Leeds city councillors for final approval next week. This part of the scheme, for the section running between Apperley Bridge and Kirkstall, is set to include a flood storage reservoir, walls, sheet piling, earth bunds and scour protection. The work is a long term project, which follows severe flooding along the River Aire following Boxing Day 2015. Phase one of the scheme, which stretches from Leeds City Centre to Woodlesford, was finished in 2017. Phase two of the scheme is split into two “steps”. Step on...

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A man has been charged with multiple offences after a crash on Apperley Lane (A658) near its junction with Cliffe Drive. Inset Pic: Google Street View A MAN has been charged with dangerous driving, a drug supply offence and possession of criminal property after crashing into a wall. Shabaz Choudhry, 42, of Byron Street in Bradford has been charged in connection with a collision that happened in Apperley Lane on Tuesday evening. He was remanded to appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court today to face charges of: dangerous driving, possession of criminal property and possession of cocaine wit...

POLICE attended an incident where a child was knocked in Bradford Moor on Sunday. Members of the Bradford East Neighbourhood Policing Team posted on Facebook: "We were first officers at the scene of a child knock down in Bradford Moor. The child was taken to hospital with what appears to be, non life-changing injuries." Police had no further details on the location or time of the incident. The Bradford East officers said they had a busy day on Sunday, as they reported they had carried out a speed watch in Apperley Bridge targeting speeding and dangerous drivers. They also reported ...