Labour in Leeds

Local Beeston Councillor Angela Gabriel is keeping her fingers crossed that funding to develop playing pitches at Kings Fields next to Hugh Gaitskill Primary School is given the go-ahead. 

The proposals to develop the site will cost £100,000 and some of the money has already been raised through the Area Committee, which Councillor Gabriel chairs, and one of the football clubs set to benefit from the improvements. Beeston St Anthony’s FC are in desperate need of a new place to play as Beggars Hill, their current pitch, suffers from high levels of anti-social behaviour. 

Beeston Juniors FC also need somewhere new to play as they are victims of their own success and, having recently been awarded the Charter Standard, have simply run out of room at their current home of Cardinal Square. Requests for funding have been submitted to Green Leeds and the Football Foundation and Councillor Gabriel is hopeful that the money will be given. 

Councillor Angela Gabriel (Beeston & Holbeck) said  “It is so important to encourage exercise in young people and it would be a real shame if these clubs could not develop because they had nowhere to play. Both clubs have been extremely successful and we should be doing all we can to support them, I was delighted to agree to some funding from the Area Committee and I just hope that the rest of the money is agreed to as soon as possible. If the funding is agreed then the new pitches would be ready for action in September next year and I know that all of the people involved in this project are keeping everything crossed that it goes ahead.”