Hello everyone, Happy New Year and here’s to a year without mindless destruction of perfectly healthy trees, talking of which……… Upcoming joint inspections with Amey As you will (or maybe will not!) know, there will be a process of joint…
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Latest #saveshefftrees Update – w/e 11th January 2019
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Posted in Blog, Citywide Tree Preservation Order, Council tree talks, Court cases, Educational visits, Healthy Felling, News
Posted in Blog, Citywide Tree Preservation Order, Council tree talks, Court cases, Educational visits, Healthy Felling, News
Joint Statement by Sheffield Council, Amey and STAG – 13th December 2018
Following more than two months of very detailed discussions between SCC, Amey and the STAG Steering Group, Sheffield City Council have announced a new approach to managing street trees within the 25 year ‘Streets Ahead’ highway management programme operated by…
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #Sheffield Tree Action Groups, #SouthYorkshire, #StreetsAhead
Posted in Council tree talks, News
Posted in Council tree talks, News
Further update on STAG’s continuing discussions with SCC and Amey
Jointly agreed press statement following a morning of talks today (below). As campaigners are aware, the group from STAG Steering Group that have been engaged in the talks, have been trying to assist the Council in formulating a proposal on…
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Posted in Council tree talks
Posted in Council tree talks
Update on STAG’s continuing discussions with SCC and Amey
We have had two sessions with SCC and Amey, totalling three days of meetings, with a three week gap to think about the information given to us in the two-day first session. At some point Sheffield Council will have to…
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #Sheffield Tree Action Groups
Posted in Council tree talks, News
Posted in Council tree talks, News
Talks Update – joint press statement
Joint statement from Chris Rust and Paul Brooke, Co-Chairs of STAG and Councillor Lewis Dagnall, Sheffield City Council’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Streetscene: “Representatives of Sheffield City Council and STAG have agreed to mediated talks, conducted by the Centre…
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #SheffieldStreetTrees
Posted in Council tree talks, Uncategorized
Posted in Council tree talks, Uncategorized
Update on Tree Talks
STAG Steering Group has been working with Cllr Lewis Dagnall on arrangements for the long awaited ‘talks’ and we can now confirm the details. The Bishop of Sheffield will chair a process of talks that will be independently facilitated by…
When is a target not a target?
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…
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
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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