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Minor edit to note that Barwick-in-Elmet is sometimes known (locally) as just 'Barwick', and Scholes-in-Elmet is sometimes known as just 'Scholes'. 62.252.224.17 23:13, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Why is the executive listed as "Labour / Liberal Democrats / Conservative / Green"? It's "Liberal Democrats / Conservative / Green". - 87.194.6.158 20:42, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
There is NO green in the executive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.187.28 (talk) 01:31, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
How can this be correct? "Taking into account the problematic nature of administrative boundaries, Leeds, as a city and cultural entity, is best defined in terms of its immediate metroplitan (sic) area. This would give the city a population of circa 700,000 Leodensians (sp)", when a quick glance at Wetherby, Otley and Garforth will reveal that these settlements alone account for 40,000 people. With a quoted Leeds administrative area of 725,000, this would leave only 685,000 Loiners. No, the best way to definition is the only one we've got - not some arbitrary system, and that in the ONS areas, which give Leeds' population as 443,247.[1] L.J.Skinnerwot|I did 01:48, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
City status would have been transferred from the original urban core to the whole metropolitan district by letters patent for the district to use that style. This article should be merged with Leeds or should be renamed Leeds local governance or something along those lines. See London Gazette (Issue 46255) published 04 April 1974. Chrisieboy (talk) 12:10, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
This article has been renamed from Leeds city council to City of Leeds as the result of a move request.
The result of the proposal was - unopposed move back to original name. Keith D (talk) 00:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
This article should be moved back to the title "City of Leeds", because all other editors who commented were against the move. The editor moving it did not follow procedure for a controversial move.
Note also that there are a large number of links pointing to "City of Leeds" which refer to the metropolitan district and not the city. I have changed the redirect from "City of Leeds" so that it points to the original article at its current title of "Leeds city council", so that these links continue to point to the intended article. PamD (talk) 20:45, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
I have made some bold changes as a result of a discussion in Talk:Leeds. In particular, I have merged the article Leeds City Council into this one, among other reasons for consistency with other English cities. --Hans Adler (talk) 19:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I think that Middleton was part of the Rothwell Urban District rather than the Leeds County Borough before 1974. See the map of Rothwell's boundaries here http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10055131&c_id=10001043 It seems as if Middleton was within this area. There is no source for the boundaries of Leeds C.B. at present. From my knowledge, it is mainly correct at present but we still need a source for this, especially when it is going into a lot of detail. Epa101 (talk) 18:12, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
MIDDLETON (W Riding) Township in Rothwell Ancient Parish, separate civil parish 1866, separate ecclesiastical parish in 1849. Local Government: Agbrigg Wapentake, Gret Preston Gilbert Union (until 1869), Hunslet Poor Law Union (1869 - 1920), Hunslet Rural Sanitary District, Rural district. Abolished civilly 1920 entirely to Leeds County Borough (associated with West Riding) and to Hunslet Civil Parish.
Thanks for the swift responses! I zoomed in on the map that I put up before and could indeed see that Middleton was just outside of the boundary. I looked up Hunslet Rural District, and Middleton seems to have been a part of that at one point. Zoom in on the western half of the district on this map http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10136039&c_id=10001043 It suggests that all of this district became part of the Rothwell Urban District in 1937 http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10136039&c_id=10001043 But then you can also find Middleton on the boundaries of the Leeds map http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10108809&c_id=10001043 yet the boundary history for Leeds does not mention any enlargement in 1922 at all. I think that the Vision of Britain website has made a mistake somewhere on this one. Much of its information seems to come from the book that Lozleader quoted anyway. One idea would be to look up in that book the reference given for the abolition of Hunslet R.D. and the enlargement of Rothwell U.D. 1931 Census of England and Wales, County Report Part II, Table B; M. of H. Order No. 87427. The County of York, West Riding Review Order, 1937. Epa101 (talk) 22:04, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
The article currently suggests that Garforth was part of the Tadcaster Rural District before 1974. It was actually an urban district, which covered Allerton Bywater and Kippax as well. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10213540&c_id=10001043 I think that a large edit soon is in order to remedy this. Epa101 (talk) 22:09, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
The intro says: "the 2001 population of Leeds itself was 443,247". Since the Leeds article is now about the City of Leeds this reference here to "Leeds" is now short of a definition. The quoted source (line 645 of this excel document from the 2001 Census) doesn't seem define "Leeds" either. What area, exactly, is this Census document referring to? IMO the consensus at Talk:Leeds that decided that Leeds = The City of Leeds needs to sort this out almost-instinct 18:39, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
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Does "technically" add anything here? Isn't it just the second largest city? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.216.142.73 (talk) 14:54, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
@Keith D: There 38 civil parishes in Leeds district, the 31 figure is only those that have parish councils and there are 6 unparished areas not just 1 namely Leeds, Aireborough, Ardsley East and West, Garforth, Pudsey and Rothwell. Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:09, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
As someone who works for 'Invest in Leeds', we have to know everything about Leeds to attract investors. Leeds Council population is 541,000 people. There is no 800,000+ population in Leeds. This can also be confirmed using percentage maths on the Census 2021. The person stating such a claim is proving why Wikipedia is not taken as a reliable source within Educational institutions. 2A02:C7F:9B14:E500:A02E:ABC7:7EB7:9023 (talk) 18:41, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
Until recently the infobox image was of Leeds Civic Hall, the seat of government of the area.
If we are going to move to a collage which shows multiple images, can we please have a selection which is more representative of the area, rather than a collection of Victorian and earlier buildings? And please remember that the first landscape-format image is the one which a mobile phone user will see as the top of the article: Harewood House is really not representative of the area.
I suggest that if we go for multiple images, they should include a river or canal (perhaps the river/mill view used in Otley), something ancient such as Adel Parish Church, some open countryside, a striking modern building (Leeds Arena or Headingley cricket ground perhaps), a cityscape (the Leeds skyline or the image in City Square, Leeds?), a town centre like Otley (eg a market place/town square scene, rather than just town hall building), etc.
Or we could just go back to a single image of the Civic Hall (I prefer the images which show the two pinnacles with their golden owls). Is there a consensus that a collage is preferable?
But, please, not an architectural tour of the district. And remember the point about which image gets onto mobile phones.
Any thoughts? PamD 08:03, 8 March 2024 (UTC)