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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 ...
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 ...
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".
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.
Another council in England has voted to introduce an annual fee for garden waste collections. Households in Chelmsford will next year have to pay £60 if they want their brown bins picked up.
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Magid ran the Sheffield Half Marathon in April 2017 dressed as a tree to object to the council's felling policies. He ran the London Marathon in 2017 to raise money for St John Ambulance. [1] He was chosen by Sheffield City Council to serve as Deputy Lord Mayor from May 2017 to May 2018.
The Sheffield City Region was one of eight city regions defined in the 2004 document Moving Forward: The Northern Way, [2] as a collaboration between the three northern regional development agencies. In September 2006, the local authorities comprising the Sheffield City Region launched the Sheffield City Region Development Programme. [ 3 ]