Talk:City of Leeds

message: 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)
thread_title: Barwick

message: 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)
thread_title:  Executive incorrect 

message: 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.  L.J.Skinnerwot|I did 01:48, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leeds 'metropolitan area'? 

message: 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)
replies: text: Might I suggest that we keep the discussion on this in one place, on the Talk:Leeds page? PamD (talk) 16:23, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Please see Talk:Leeds#Merge with City of Leeds for further discussion. Chrisieboy (talk) 19:15, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with Leeds

message: This article has been renamed from Leeds city council to City of Leeds as the result of a move request.
 - unopposed move back to original name. Keith D (talk) 00:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: *The earlier discussion on this is at Talk:Leeds#Merge with City of Leeds Keith D (talk) 21:11, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

text: *The article Leeds City Council is already is in place, and is probably why lower case was used in the move. Keith D (talk) 22:40, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: 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)
thread_title:  Leeds City Council 

message: 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)
replies: text: You are right, I seriously blundered there. I should have read Local Government Act 1972 a bit more closely, which contains most of the necessary information. I made a small immediate fix, but if you want to make any sweeping changes, go ahead. I wrote this section mainly to replace the alphabetical list of areas, and as an exercise for me to learn about my new surroundings. I have only very vague ideas what these places are like, and perhaps they should be grouped differently. It would be great to have short geographical comments about the former districts, mentioning the Rhubarb Triangle and any other, similar characteristics. --Hans Adler (talk) 23:20, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Garforth was a separate urban district pre-1974

message: 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)
replies: text: My understanding of the ONS Key Statistics for urban areas is that they are intended to enable a wider comparison of urban settlement across England and Wales by using a statistical definition of what it means to be 'urban'. I think that under the changes that DDStretch proposed and I have started to make to the Leeds articles the key statistics for urban areas data would be discussed in a new 'main article' on the demography of Leeds, perhaps at People of Leeds. —Jeremy (talk) 19:13, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think a seperate article on this topic, relevant to both the City of Leeds and the Continuous urban area formed around Leeds City Centre, would be an excellent idea. almost-instinct 19:31, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: 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)
thread_title: technically the second largest city in England

message: 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)
replies: text: The reference in the article indicates 31 parish councils, there is no mention of 38 parishes. You need to supply a reference that supports the numbers / areas to be changed to. Keith D (talk) 17:04, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference provided was the Mapit one. Bramhope and Carlton seems to be a joint council and the likes of Wothersome may just have a parish meeting. The ref for the councils is from over a decade ago and refers to parish councils not civil parishes. Crouch, Swale (talk)  17:23, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of parishes 

message: 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)
replies: text: Are you perhaps confusing the City of Leeds the Borough, with the city that is Leeds itself? Leeds had an estimated population of 516,000+ in 2020, this article covers the district named after Leeds and is one of five within West Yorkshire, the others being Bradford (not the city, but the District), Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. The joy of all things (talk) 20:25, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 841,000 population is a lie 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Infobox image(s)