Over the course of the last three years Sheffield has succumbed to the forces of post-truth politics. When the STAG campaign originally got off the ground most people, including myself, were under the impression that the Council planned to fell and…
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When is a target not a target?
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #SheffieldStreetTrees, #SouthYorkshire, #StreetsAhead, 5th April 2018, felling target
Posted in Blog, Council tree talks, Streets Ahead contract analysis
Posted in Blog, Council tree talks, Streets Ahead contract analysis
Thoughts on the Council talks process
by Paul Selby (of Save Nether Edge Trees) First then, to the talks. I attach an image of the press release from STAG Steering Group about the talks. To be clear, there is still a huge degree of scepticism about…
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #SheffieldStreetTrees, #SouthYorkshire, #StreetsAhead
Posted in Council tree talks
Posted in Council tree talks
Invitation to talks from Sheffield City Council, and STAG’s reply
A message from STAG Co-Chair Paul Brooke: Dear Tree Campaigners There has been some speculation on the promised talks between SCC, Amey and STAG representatives. In this post I’ve put pictures of the letters received from Cllr Dagnall and the…
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #SheffieldStreetTrees, #StreetsAhead, Council negotations
Posted in Letters to and from Sheffield City Council
Posted in Letters to and from Sheffield City Council
STAG Steering Group meeting: 26th June 2018
1. Notification of urgent felling by Amey 1.1. It had been working okay, but this week has not been working. There has been no notification about a number of trees in need of genuine felling or pruning. 1.2 Paul Brooke…
Mary Marshall (Sarjeant) 1950 – 2018
by Sarah Deakin Dear Friends It is with a heavy heart that I share the sad news that Mary Marshall (Sarjeant) passed away peacefully in St Luke’s Hospice on Thursday 19th July following a short illness. She was 67. Many…
Posted in Uncategorized
What does the new Injunction mean?
by Paul Brooke, STAG co-chair. From the outset the legal advice to us was that the Council would be able to make an area around a tree to be felled subject to the Injunction and that the Persons Unknown definition…
Tagged with: #injunction, #SafetyZoneInjunction, #saveshefftrees, #SheffieldStreetTrees, #SheffieldTreeMassacre, #StreetsAhead, #TermsOfInjunction
Posted in Blog, Court cases, Legal notices
Posted in Blog, Court cases, Legal notices
A welcome dose of transparency from Sheffield City Council
Analysis by Paul Selby Since I became active in the tree campaign over 31 months ago, I have fought for transparency around the PFI contract, for all that can be legally released unredacted to be released. I work in the…
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #SheffieldChainsawMassacre, #SheffieldStreetTrees, #StreetsAhead, #StreetsAheadContract
Posted in Blog, News, Streets Ahead contract analysis
Posted in Blog, News, Streets Ahead contract analysis
Injunction renewal hearing – 12th July 2018
SHEFFIELD HIGH COURT, 12 July 2018 report by Sheldon Hall New readers start here: On 21 June, thirteen tree campaigners were sent letters by Sheffield City Council, asking them to sign an undertaking based on a reworked version of the…
Tagged with: #chainsawmassacre, #injunction, #SafetyZoneInjunction, #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #SheffieldStreetTrees, #TermsOfInjunction
Posted in Court case reports, Court cases
Posted in Court case reports, Court cases
Injunction renewal hearing – 11th July 2018
SHEFFIELD HIGH COURT, 11 July 2018. report by Sheldon Hall. Undramatic scenes punctuated the inaction at today’s tedious non-hearing at Sheffield High Court. Boredom ran high as anti-climax followed breathlessly on anti-climax and non-event piled on non-event before culminating in…
Tagged with: #injunction, #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #SheffieldStreetTrees, #SheffieldTreeMassacre, #TreeProtectors'CourtCase
Posted in Court case reports, Court cases
Posted in Court case reports, Court cases
Feedback from the University of Leicester street tree tour
Sheffield Street Trees and Heritage “In May 2018 STAG members supported a visit to some of the key campaign sites – and iconic street trees – for a group of undergraduate students from Leicester University. These BA Human Geography students…
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #SouthYorkshire, street tree tours
Posted in Educational visits, News
Posted in Educational visits, News
STAG Steering Group meeting: 22nd May 2018
Action Notes 1. Meetings with Councillor Lewis Dagnall 1.1 Two of the local groups have met Cllr Dagnall, following his public statements that he wanted to meet local groups. 1.2 Other groups reported that he hadn’t responded yet to emails.…
Final report from the Crown Court – 7th June 2018
You will by now know the verdicts in three of the four cases brought before the High Court in Sheffield this past week. But for the record, I conclude herewith my first-hand account of the trial with this summary of…
Posted in Uncategorized
Second report from the Crown Court – 6th June 2018
It’s official: geckoing is not, repeat *not*, a legal loophole. Mr Justice Males made the point emphatically, implicitly agreeing with STAG co-chair and defendant Paul Brooke that it is a legitimate way for tree campaigners to protest without breaching the…
Posted in Uncategorized
First report from the Crown Court – 5th June 2018
It was a day of two gasps, bracketed by a pair of curve balls. The trial of Paul Brooke, Benoit Compin, Simon Crump and Fran Grace began with a lengthy preamble about procedural technicalities. Also discussed was the question of…
Tagged with: #injunction, #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #SheffieldStreetTrees, #SouthYorkshire, #TreeProtectors'CourtCase
Posted in Blog, Court cases, News
Posted in Blog, Court cases, News
Honest leaders admit mistakes
Hannah Northward is studying for a Sculpture and Environmental Art degree at the Glasgow School of Art and her 2018 graduation show focusses on Sheffield street tree felling. Entitled ‘Honest leaders admit mistakes’ she plans to exhibit the work at…
Posted in Uncategorized
STAG Steering Group meeting: 1st May 2018
Action notes 1. STAG and SCC conversations 1.1 A number of informal conversations have taken place between STAG co-chairs and senior officers at Sheffield city council. 1.2 It is understood that Amey are preparing proposals to save more trees at…
STAG Steering Group meeting: 5th April 2018
Action Notes 1. Get Off My Tree Rally and March 1.1 Dave Dillner asked SG members to put a call out for marshals to their local groups. 2. Sheffield Trees International Community (STIC) 2.1 Shelley had received contact from a…
Animation about Sheffield’s street trees
Here’s a lovely little animation about Sheffield’s street trees created by University student Mike Burgess.
Tagged with: #chainsawmassacre, #saveshefftrees, #SheffieldTreeMassacre, Mike Burgess, street tree animation
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Local election candidates responses to STAG’s Street Tree Manifesto
STAG is not a party political organisation, however we are aware that tree felling has become a political issue for many of our supporters. In this spirit we have invited all local candidates to respond to the issues presented in…
Posted in Uncategorized
STAG meeting with Police & Crime Commissioner
STAG Meeting with Police and Crime Commissioner, 30/01/18 At PCC Office, Carbrook, 3:30-4:30 pm Present: Dr Alan Billings, Police and Crime Commissioner His assistant taking notes Chris Rust, on behalf of STAG Steering Group Paul Brooke, Meersbrook Park Rd resident…
Tagged with: #PoliceandCrimeCommissioner, #saveshefftrees, #SheffieldStreetTrees, #SheffieldTreeMassacre, #SouthYorkshire
Posted in Minutes from official meetings, News
Posted in Minutes from official meetings, News
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.
STAG - Sheffield Tree Action Groups 