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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 ...
In May 2018, Magid raised money for Sheffield war memorial by leading a static cycling challenge. [18] In February 2019, Magid announced that he would not be contesting the 2019 Sheffield City Council election and would therefore be standing down as a councillor. [19] He was succeeded by the successful Green candidate Angela Argenzio. [20]
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".
The protest was endorsed by local political groups including the Heeley Labour Party and the leader of Sheffield City Council, Julie Dore. [48] [49] The Sheffield protest was livestreamed on social media for people who were unable to attend due to COVID-19 restrictions, as Sheffield was the worst affected British city by the pandemic outside ...
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 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.
Sheffield City Council and the South Yorkshire Metropolitan Authority were solidly left-wing, remaining socialist even as Thatcherism became the dominant political ideology in the country at large. Sheffield City Council constructed large council estates with large numbers of communal blocks of flats based on the streets in the sky philosophy ...