{"id":708968,"date":"2026-01-20T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/708968\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:21:15","slug":"horsforth-new-community-hub-officially-receives-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/708968\/","title":{"rendered":"Horsforth: New community hub officially receives its name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By John Baron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Horsforth residents have decided the new name for a community building at The Green.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Work began to transform the building into a new multi-use community hub at 3 The Green last July.<\/p>\n<p>Before Christmas Horsforth Town Council offered residents a choice of three names for the new building, which will provide a home for events, meetings, activities and community groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After counting the votes, the town council this week announced the winning name as \u2018Horsforth Community Centre\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Other names considered included 3 The Green Community Centre and The Horsforth Green Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new facility is based in the building next to Horsforth Museum and its opening is scheduled for April 2026. WLD <a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/horsforth-precept-to-rise-as-work-continues-on-new-community-hub\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported last October<\/a> that residents face an approximate 3.8% precept rise, or an additional 77p per Band D property annually, to help cover the costs.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-03-at-13.23.42.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191083\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By John Baron Horsforth residents have decided the new name for a community building at The Green.\u00a0 Work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,209390,212614,212615,1860,16,15],"class_list":["post-708968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-horsforth","tag-horsforth-community-centre","tag-horsforth-town-council","tag-leeds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115928346555117617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}