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West Ardsley Action Group are thrilled to announce they were joint winners in their category- Team of the year, along with Rowlands Pharmacy Thank you so much to everyone at WF3 Kindness especially Daniel and the team.
Best of WF3 Awards 2020
Team Of The Year
This award honours the teams that have worked extra hard in the last year for the benefit of local people.
WINNER
West Ardsley Action Group
‘The West Ardsley Action Group have worked incredibly hard on the campaign against the development on the site of Haigh Woods volunteering many hours to this cause and undertaken extensive research, reviewed many, many documents and liaised with planning officials.’
The West Ardsley Action Group also get involved with many initiatives and projects across the community.
Rowlands Pharmacy
‘The whole team at Rowlands have worked under extreme pressure, they have been busier than ever at the same time as being short staffed. Each team member has gone above and beyond in difficult conditions.’
The staff at Rowlands have all worked beyond their hours and stayed late, worked their lunch all under increased pressure. “
https://www.wf3kindness.co.uk/best-of-wf3-2020-team-of-the-year
Update on WAAGS request to be consulted on the Haigh Wood Development!
WAAG have received the following response in an emailed letter from LCC Head of Planning.
The local community will be consulted by the Local Planning Authority in due course should any future Reserved Matters applications are submitted. This consultation is a requirement for all applications within the General Development Procedure Order 2015. Furthermore, the NPPF states the importance of pre-application discussions with the Local Planning Authority and it would be expected, and certainly will be encouraged by the council, that before any Reserved Matters applications are submitted, meaningful pre-application discussions are held. At this point the importance of consultation and engagement with yourselves will be emphasised to the applicant; again this is considered to be good practice.
WAAG await further information and trust we will be contacted.
Kind regards
WAAG
Dear Councillors
I trust you and your nearest and dearest are all well.
I refer to my previous email of 8th November herewith. Sent on behalf of West Ardsley Action Group to David Feeney, copied to the above recipients and disseminated to the local community via West Ardsley Web site and email listing.
7 + weeks have elapsed and i have received no reply of any kind in response to this communication. It can only be assumed that LCC and their Planning Personnel are intent on ignoring our request to be included in the consultation process. Are they working hand in hand with the Developers, as they did during the period between the original refusal by Plans Panel, in effect leading to the subsequent overturning of the original decision.
Is the policy of LCC to continue to ignore local residents. And, despite our request to participate, in a “ Spirit of Cooperation “ to preclude WAAG from any further involvement in this process.
It was noted at the original Plans Panel meeting that the community received the support of your good selves to refuse the application. We are now asking for your support in eliciting a response to our communication herewith.
Thanks & regards
Peter Cowling
Chair , West Ardsley Action Group
The Wonderful people at WF3 Kindness have organised and arranged the first “Best of WF3” awards for our area of Ardsley, Thorpe and Tingley.
They asked the people of the community to nominate people who had made a difference in the last year. they received a staggering 160+ nominations showing how amazing our community is!
The list of finalists has now been published and its lovely to see so many people from West Ardsley included! Including our very own West Ardsley Action Group and Camille Leach.
Also from West Ardsley –
Hilltop Teacher – Mrs Janet Blakeley
Lorna Spencer -who started the national “#FromMyWindow’ Group
Diane Wells who runs our free little library
The Hare and Hounds public house
and many others- We are proud of you all Well Done!
you can find all the finalists on the link below
https://www.wf3kindness.co.uk/bestofwf3
Jackie, Camille and Cody
You wait all year for a tree and then 3 turn up at once!
Aswell as a lovely tree at the Methodist Church we now have a village Christmas tree plus a mini one for the kids
A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO Mr Simon Panther and Mr Dave Whitey
You can find the Trees outside of Hilltop School
West Ardsley Action Group now ask some thing of you-
The small tree needs decorating as does the bush at the front ( next to the big tree) and the railings outside the community centre
Please feel free to place a bauble, you can dedicate it to someone you love, some one you miss or ‘just because’
if you want to write on your bauble to let everyone know why or for who please do or if you wish to stay private you can, there’s no pressure. 
Just baubles no tinsel please.
please keep the large tree clear as its already very beautiful
Thanks to Lynda, Camille and Jessica for putting the tree up this afternoon and to our Tree watchers who will keep an eye on it 
Twitter Updates
The area was already wild.....it didn’t need rewilding nor the 1000s tonnes of concrete that replaced the ripped out previous wild ..... we have to stop Government Greenwashing their destruction! #Cop26 #WorldWithoutNature #WorldWildlifeDay https://twitter.com/bearwitness2019/status/1367013426489344000
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/03/hs2-to-rewild-127-hectares-around-its-10-mile-chilterns-tunnel This is absurd! ‘Rewilding or re-wilding, activities are conservation efforts aimed at restoring and PROTECTING natural processes and wilderness areas.‘ #HS2 destroyed the wilderness area first. @HS2ltd greenwash and a cheap way to get rid of the chalk.
Absolutely laughable - pop over to facebook and read the comments under their post there, so many communities fighting LCC to keep their green spaces 😡
You might have noticed that our logo looks different today.
Much of our natural world is disappearing or threatened, so to mark #WorldWildlifeDay we’ve taken the nature out of our logo too.
Check out this- we cant control what is lost but we dont have to lose everything https://www.westardsley.co.uk/waag-letter-to-chief-planning-officer-requesting-consultation-on-haigh-wood-housing-development/
Yes, there was a pretence of democracy, for show only. Over 3,000 cannot be wrong but LCC want it concreted over. You’d think they’d at least put it in reserve rather than first up over brownfield sites it’s just so very sad & very wrong. Gone forever for the sake of greed.
@HaighHelp @LeedsCC_News @LeedsNews @leedslivenews The destruction of this beautiful & important green space for wildlife & the community is a travesty of democracy (3,000 objections). History will judge the Government & Leeds Council harshly for their disregard for nature, the environment and people's wellbeing. Heartbreaking.