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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
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
A new petition has been started against the felling of the Chelsea Elm. “In the midst of its ill‐informed and deeply unpopular campaign of felling trees across the city, the council, in its wisdom, has decided to remove a much…
Destruction, not obstruction. Changing street scene, another healthy beauty axed now, needlessly, respected anywhere else. #saveshefftrees https://twitter.com/SheffTreeSteel/status/887640980601671680
Crawford Rd, today. See the chipped wood in the background, that’s ££ of env benefits flushed away, recycled as shareholder profit, happy? https://twitter.com/SheffTreeSteel/status/887682909993390081
Welcome to Sheffield, where you’ll be ruled with iron fists. One clutching YOUR money the other wielding a huge axe! More here
The Sheffield City Council has been, by any measure, behaving appallingly toward its citizens in its eagerness to see that healthy trees are felled. Just within the last year, they’ve carried out a dawn raid, rousing pensioners from their beds at…
Mona rd, another healthy asset felled, with it all those ££ environmental benefits, what did I say about those speedy orange obliteraters More here
Now you see it… 🙂 Norfolk Park. Healthy, beneficial, felled for minor damage, fixed as standard elsewhere, but Sheffield, profiteering https://twitter.com/SheffTreeSteel/status/887320630588305408
= private shareholder profit – benefit loss to city = £m’s. Sadder & poorer #saveshefftrees
“Good luck to the campaigners in court today. Please read and support the campaign”
The chainsaw massacre: It’s survived two World Wars and Dutch Elm disease but now council jobsworths want to fell Britain’s second favourite tree Through two World Wars and a plague which all but wiped its species off the face of…
Warminster Cres this AM, at same time SCC is tweeting about air pollution, you couldn’t make it up folks #saveshefftrees #sheffieldissuper More here
Campaigners have organised a summer gathering under the Chelsea Elm to celebrate our wonderful trees and show support for the campaign. Sheffield Council recently announced that they would be felling the extremely rare Huntingdon Elm, ignoring the advice of their…