Local Services for Spinning Acres

Spinning Acres is well served by Leeds City Council.

For information on council tax, refuse collection, recycling sites, schools, libraries or health services, take a look at this website.

If you are in any doubt about local services, you can call Leeds City Council or speak to a member of the Pickard Properties team.

As a quick reference point, you may find the following information useful.

Refuse Collection

For quick reference, there are three types of wheelie bin at Spinning Acres – black for general household waste, brown for garden waste, and green for recycling such as paper, cardboard, metal cans, aerosols, and plastics. Click here to check when your refuse collection day is.

Cloth Halls and Burton Lea have communal bin stores. The bin stores have recycle bins for paper, cardboard, metal cans, aerosols, and plastics and general waste bins for household waste.

Leeds Council has developed an invaluable app for those with poor memories; simply download the Leeds Bins app to check your bin days on the move and get reminders sent to your phone.

Lighting

If you wish to report a broken streetlight, you can call 0800 032 5349.

Before reporting, please note that streetlights along certain roads will be switched off between midnight and 4.30am as part of the selective part-night street lighting scheme.

To report a fault, you can use the ‘report a lighting fault’ form here.

Schools

Spinning Acres is fortunate in being located nearby to a good range of highly sought-after primary and pre-schools, so it’s hardly surprising that the area is in such demand. Spinning Acres is ideally situated in catchment areas for several state primary schools.

Pre-school:

Meanwood Preschool – 0.6 miles

Busy Bees Nursery – 0.4 miles

Primary school:

St. Chads C of E Primary School – 0.9 miles

Weetwood Primary School – 0.3 miles

Meanwood C of E Primary School – 0.5 miles

Shire Oak VC Primary School – 0.3 miles

Secondary school:

Lawnswood School – 1 mile

Carr Manor Community School – 1.3 miles

To enrol your child at a new school, please take a look at the Leeds City Council website here.

Universities and Colleges

Spinning Acres is located just 1.9 miles from the University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University’s City Campus, and only 2.6 miles from Leeds City College.

Even closer is Leeds Beckett University’s Headingley Campus – which is only 0.7 miles away.

Garages / Fuel Stations

BP Garage, 199 Otley Rd, Headingley, 0113 278 1171

Esso EG Lawnswood, Otley Rd, Leeds, 0113 267 8073

Post Office

Your local Post Office is located in Headingley Library, North Lane, Leeds, LS6 3HG.

Library

Headingley Community Hub is based on North Lane, Headingley, and has a customer service area that offers full access to local council services as well as Jobshop. Also available is a full range of printing, photocopying and public access ICT facilities.

Opening Hours:

• Monday: 9am – 7pm
• Tuesday: 10am – 7pm
• Wednesday: 9am – 7pm
• Thursday: 9am – 7pm
• Friday: 9am – 5pm
• Saturday: 10am – 4pm
• Sunday: Closed

Services available:

• Assistive Technology
• Adult books for loan — fiction and non-fiction
• Children’s books for loan — fiction and non-fiction
• Children’s holiday activities
• Community information
• Computers
• Council papers (online)
• Events
• Fax
• Free internet access
• Learning Sessions e.g, learn how to use a computer
• Microsoft Office facilities
• Planning applications
• Printing
• Request service