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Someone, somewhere has power to fix mess – The Star
This is a letter to Paul Billington, Sheffield Council’s director of Culture and Environment. You can play around with statistics all you like and say whatever you want to try and convince us that everything is OK, but it’s not…
Fight to save rare elm could take Sheffield tree campaigners to court once more – The Star
Sheffield tree campaigners could take their fight to save a rare elm from the chainsaw to court. The city council has decided to fell the 120-year-old Huntingdon elm on the corner of Chelsea Road and Union Road in Nether Edge,…
STAG Steering High Court Summary
As everyone is aware, the three day High Court hearing on SCC’s request for injunctions against our supporters ended on Friday. The Judge stated that he will need ‘up to two weeks’ to come to a decision. As well as…
Tagged with: #airpollution, #AirQuality, #saveshefftrees, #sheffieldissuper, #TreeCharter, #treemendous, #Trees3
Posted in Blog, Legal notices, News
Posted in Blog, Legal notices, News
Another Healthy Tree Felled – Thorpe House Av.
Live on Thorpe house Ave, if you look carefully, you can see those ££ environmental benefits being chipped away, recycled as Amey profits
Another Healthy Tree Felled – Pingle Road S7
New addition to S7 Rogues Gallery, Pingle Rd, polluted school run. Doing it for the kids, 1st lesson, Business vs. Environment, teacher SCC
London iTree Report Highlight Value of Urban Trees
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Sheffield’s Street Trees – being destroyed for profit.
A great video for raising awareness out there, please click to view: 51,817 Views
Another healthy tree felled – Whirlow Grove S11
Another perfectly healthy tree felled, engineering solution alternatives to felling ignored to save costs and increase profits, unfortunately at a huge environmentally cost to the City and health / happiness to folk.
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Posted in Healthy Felling, News
Posted in Healthy Felling, News
100 Years On: Crookes Valley Road Memorial Trees
Local film production studio, Puzzleglass Films, have produced a short film entitled 100 Years On about Sheffield’s memorial trees. “100 years ago the First World War came to and end, a conflict that claimed the lives of millions of people around the world.…
Independent Tree Panel Result Summary – Final
Summary Of Results Sheffield Council has now released all of the Independent Tree Panel’s recommendations, as well as its own response to those recommendations. Adding these to the previously released information, here are the final summary statistics: 150 roads were…
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Amey PLC to desecrate Sheffield’s WW1 Living Memorial, for profit
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Campaigners and Sheffield City Council chiefs face wait for ruling on tree protest injuctions – Yorkshire Post
Campaigners and Sheffield City Council face a two week wait to hear if a High Court judge has granted injunctions against tree felling protesters. The local authority is taking legal action over continued protests against the chopping down of thousands…
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‘Sheffield Council ‘unaware’ of company’s corporate manslaughter conviction before signing two BILLION pound contract’
Sheffield City Council signed a contract worth £2 BILLION with a company to upgrade roads and streets unaware that the firm had a conviction for corporate manslaughter, a senior officer admitted in court today. The admission came from the local…
People across Britain should watch with concern as Sheffield City Council drags protesters through court
The ongoing saga surrounding tree-felling in Sheffield will enter its latest chapter in Leeds today as a three-day court case with potential national ramifications for local democracy begins. Read more at: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/the-yorkshire-post-says-people-across-britain-should-watch-with-concern-as-sheffield-city-council-drags-protestors-through-court-1-8670105
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Sheffield City Council withdraws tree protest injunction claim
Sheffield City Council has agreed to suspend their request for a temporary injunction preventing tree protestors taking direct action to stop felling. Instead, a full three day hearing will take place at Leeds High Court from 26 to 28 July.…
Posted in News
Just £2 could save your trees
Yesterday the high court set a date for hearing the council’s injunction request, as next Wednesday (July 26th). This means we have little more than a week to raise as much money as we can. High court is an expensive business,…
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The Latest Independent Tree Panel Results
Another batch of Independent Tree Panel results have been published, along with the council’s final decisions. Aldam Way Blayton Road Crabtree Drive East Bank Road Ecclesall Road Lathkill Road Lees Hall Avenue Montgomery Road Oxford Street Ridgeway Road Smelter Wood…
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Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust response to Nether Edge elm arboriculture reports
The council is proposing to fell a healthy and important elm tree, with no clear reason for doing so. That is our conclusion, having carefully considered the council’s recently released independent arboriculture reports as well as the Independent Tree Panel…
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Innocent protest to save Sheffield’s healthy street trees turns into a nightmare, as a small group of brave suburbanites take on their Council, the police and a multinational corporation.
We are currently collecting to support the small number of campaigners who are facing court costs after cases brought by Sheffield City Council.
Walk the Heartwood Trail and find Robert Macfarlane’s beautiful charms against harm hung from some of Sheffield’s threatened Street Trees. Designed by Jackie Morris.
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