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The town of Sheffield was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1843. The borough was run by the Corporation of Sheffield, also known as the town council.When elected county councils were established in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, Sheffield was considered large enough to run its own county-level services and so it was made a county borough, independent from West Riding County ...
The Sheffield tree felling protests were a series of protests and unrest happening between 2014 and 2018 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.The protests began as a response to the mass felling of healthy street trees across Sheffield since 2012 as part of the controversial ‘Streets Ahead’ Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract signed by Sheffield City Council (SCC), Amey plc and the ...
Original Owner: City of Sheffield Owner: City of SheffieldLocation: Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Restored to full working order by Sheffield City Council in the 1990s. The Fore & Aft tipper was based on a Faun design and was an early solution to the decreased density of refuse requiring some means of compaction.
A report published ahead of a Sheffield City Council waste and street scene policy committee meeting said the move, the first since 2016, was due to "increased costs to the service".
Sheffield City Council is the local authority for the district. The council is composed of 84 councillors, three for each of the city's 28 wards. It is currently under No Overall Control. The city was under Labour control from its creation until 1999, when the Liberal Democrats took control of the council.
In 1986, following abolition, the SYCRO collections were transferred to the custody of Sheffield City Council. The ‘county’ service was funded and managed under a joint arrangement between all four local authorities – Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield and Rotherham. Sheffield Archives continued to acquire county archives from 1986.
The Sheffield City Region included Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield as well as some adjacent local authorities in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. This continued until 2018 when an elected mayor was finally chosen, but only by the electorate of the four South Yorkshire Districts.
All fifteen towers were demolished via controlled explosion between 1997 and 2005 as part of Sheffield City Council's stock reduction plan in order to cut the council housing budget. Mandrake was the first tower to be demolished, by mechanical means in early 1997, followed by East Bank and Jervis by controlled explosion, on 8 June 1997.