Harehills
In the middle is Banstead Park, a grassy slope with trees and play areas, giving a view over the city of Leeds.[13] In the 1890s, St Aidans Anglican church was built on Roundhay Road in a Romanesque style with mosaics by Frank Brangwyn; it was designed by Robert James Johnson of Newcastle.[25] Following World War II, Greek Cypriots and Eastern European immigrants settled in Harehills; there has been a Lithuanian supermarket there since the 1970s.[28] In the 2000s, many Eastern European immigrants moved to Harehills, particularly from Poland and the area is also home to refugees from Zimbabwe, Somalia and Iraq as well as asylum seekers.[32][33] One resident described Harehills as "a horrible place to live" and complained about joy riding, rubbish, drug dealing, arson and vermin.[42] A feature of the community effort is a number of colourful mosaic street signs, made by youths who are residents of Harehills.[1] Over the past years[clarification needed] residents and local agencies have come together and organised community events like the Harehills Festival in 2018.[44] Since 2008, Shine social enterprise has had a great impact supporting non-violent women ex-offenders to reintegrate into society and take care of their children; providing education and cultural activities for local children; supporting entrepreneurs and artists to develop sustainable local businesses; and in helping the environment by providing green space and working towards improving pedestrian and cycling routes in Harehills.[45] The area saw more rioting on 18 July 2024, with West Yorkshire Police officers attacked, cars and a First West Yorkshire bus set alight by local residents, substantial vandalism, and anti-police sentiment as a result of local residents upset by a disturbance involving agency workers and children.Footage shared on social media showed individuals using scooters, pushchairs, bikes, and bats to assault the vehicle.Buses run through Harehills to Leeds city centre, Oakwood, Roundhay, Gipton, Seacroft and Wetherby.[61] In 2023, the most frequently reported crimes were violence and sexual offences, public order violations, and incidents of criminal damage and arson.[63] According to the 2021 census for the wider ward, 38.2% of people are Asian, 34.5% are white, 17.4% are Black, with mixed, Arab and other ethnic groups comprising the rest of the community.[62][65][66] The community is diverse, with a local resident describing the area as: "Romanian, Gypsy, Pakistani, Asian – this is what it means to be from Harehills".[43] The Roman Catholic parish church is St Augustine's, a 1937 brick building on Harehills Road, a little to the north of Banstead Park.On Harehills Lane is the Baptist Church, a 1928 brick building [70] and the Jamia Masjid Bilal Mosque built in 1996 to serve the local Pakistani community, but now having a much more diverse congregation of recent immigrants.[43] On Easterly Road an old school building is (since 1988) home to the New Testament Church of God, a Pentecostal congregation of mainly African or Afro-Caribbean origin.[43] As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the area's religious makeup is 41.9% Muslim, 37% Christian, 17.4% No Religion, with smaller numbers of Hindu and Sikh communities.
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