Beckhill

In 2004 there was a problem with gang behaviour in this and other estates, and in 2006 it was reported that children were committing burglaries.[8][9] There used to be a public house called the Hilltop in Beckhill Grove[10] but it was demolished in 2007, making space for a planned local regeneration development by East North East Homes Leeds.[11] In July 2007 authorisation was given to demolish a large number of properties on Beckhill Approach and Beckhill Garth, to make way for new family housing.[12] Beckhill became the focus of negative press attention in December 2008, following the 'Beckhill Stabbing'.[13][14][15] As of 2014, knife crime continued to be a problem on the estate.[16]

Since 2007, the Beckhill Implementation Group (BIG) received funding from the NHS for activities to promote health and wellbeing on the estate.[17] BIG won an Effective Partnership Working Award on 18 March 2009.[18] Groundwork Leeds is still involved in improvement of this environment.[19] In 2007 the average value of a house on Beckhill Chase was approximately half that of the average house in Leeds, and at least one of those houses was built in 1968.[20] In Beckhill Grove there are 39 homes, built about the same time.

There is an active Beckhill Tenants and Residents' Association.[21] £10,000 funding was agreed by Leeds City Council (North East Inner Area Committee) in 2008 for a study into the feasibility of providing a new community centre for Beckhill.[22] The Three Churches Project focuses on this and other nearby estates. In 2008 the group completed a four-month project with people from estates including Beckhill, and performed a play based on Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona.[23] New council housing is planned for the estate, as a second phase of Leeds City Council's intention to build 80 properties across three sites in Leeds.[24]

Houses on the estate around Beckhill Approach were demolished in 2012 and the estate's newsagent was demolished in 2014.[25]