Changelog

Buses, the new tip checker and the Environment Agency's flood warnings are now the three live cards at the top, with the bin-day lookup first in the grid below. Air & Pollen is unpinned until the grass pollen season comes round again in late spring.

The bins answer now points at this site's own postcode lookup rather than telling you to go and find the council's. The fourth-bin answer names all seven areas in the food-waste trial, says it runs through 2026, and gives the council's actual target for the rest of the city: a weekly food collection by 2029/30. The tip answer had said there are charges on DIY waste — there have been none since January 2024, but there is a four-visits-a-month limit, and fridges and freezers are not being taken at all right now. The bus and tram answers caught up with the franchising contracts and the business case.

The Combined Authority signed its first Weaver Network contracts in September 2026 — First West Yorkshire for the Bramley depot in west Leeds and for Huddersfield, Transdev Blazefield for Dewsbury — so the May 2027 start now has operators attached. The tram card was also wrong about what happens next: it is the Strategic Outline Case that goes to government later this year, and the next public consultation on the routes only comes after that and an Outline Business Case are both approved.

Type your postcode, pick your address, and see your real collection dates for every bin — read live from the council's own service. Optional reminder emails the evening before or the morning of collection day.

Pick your valuation band (A–H) to see this year's charge, what it works out to a month, and how it splits between Leeds City Council, the adult social care precept, the police and the fire service. It covers the 2026/27 figures for the main unparished area and all 31 town and parish councils. It's a plain sum over the council's published figures — nothing you pick is saved.

A colored-pencil drawing of the abbey ruins in their meadow beside the River Aire now heads the town page.

How high the Aire is running at Crown Point in the city centre, updated through the day, with where it sits against the last month — next to the official flood warnings. The river's record here is the 2015 Boxing Day flood.

A resident asked for a tool that finds open booking slots across restaurants for a given time and place. It is a genuinely useful idea, but there is no open feed for live restaurant availability — the only way to get it would be to scrape booking sites, which breaks easily and could show tables that are not really free, so we declined it for now rather than build something unreliable. If a booking provider opens an API to us, it is worth revisiting.

A Leeds resident asked for a way to see recent wildlife sightings near them — the kind of thing that, for a rare bird, sends a crowd across the country. We can't replicate the birding alert networks that rare-bird news travels through, but we can show what people have openly shared: Recently Spotted lists research-grade, photo-backed observations logged near Leeds on iNaturalist, newest first, only where the record and its photo carry a licence we're allowed to display. It isn't an alert line, so it points to RSPB Leeds, the local reserves and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for the news that moves fast.

Leeds is the largest city in Britain with no tram or train line running across it, so the bus is how most people get around — and unreliable buses are the city's longest-running complaint. There's now a live board showing where the buses on the main corridors are at this moment: how far out each one is, which side of the city it's on, and which way it's heading, in plain words. It tracks ten routes covering every direction — the A660 Headingley buses (23 and 24), the Harehills and Chapeltown 2, the south-Leeds 12/13/13A, the cross-city 16/16A and 50/50A, the 72 to Bradford, the Arriva 163/168 to Garforth and Castleford, the 229 out through Gildersome, the A1 Flyer to the airport, and the X84 to Otley and Ilkley — with the timetable a tap away for each. The data is the Department for Transport's open bus feed; scheduled frequencies come from published timetables, and when the live feed is quiet the timetables are still there.

The December 2025 announcement kept the 2028 pledge for early works but moved the official opening from the mid-2030s to the late 2030s — the answer now says so.

Where the £2.50 fare cap, the Weaver Network bus takeover and the tram each stand, with the dates in order — including December 2025's slip of the tram opening to the late 2030s.

Hourly modelled air quality in plain language, with grass and birch pollen in season — June grass pollen is the one most people feel. It also tells the story of the Clean Air Zone that never needed to launch.

Leeds joins with four tools: live flood watch covering the Aire and the becks, an air and pollen check, common questions (bins, the tip, buses, renting), and a who-to-call directory with verified numbers.

Ten documents covering demographics, the economy, civic services, local voices, geography, history, media and a tool backlog. Recurring themes: buses and the long wait for mass transit, Leeds-specific bin quirks, Aire flood memory, and parking.