1. Finances Update 1.1 Chris gave an update on the state of STAG finances. 1.2 There was a brief discussion about whether we should use this opportunity to pay off any loans outstanding. However Chris confirmed that all the individuals…
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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…
STAG Steering Group meeting: 28th August 2018
1. Notification Process for Urgent Fellings 1.1 Process still hit and miss. Earlier notification would be better than the current one or two days. 1.2 Specific problem identified with a tree in Wadsley with a sign for felling from 17th…
STAG Steering Group meeting: 31st July 2018
1. Funding Position 1.1 Chris summarised the latest position, having sent round the details a few days earlier. 1.2 There was discussion about which order various costs and demands should be paid. Options were agreed. 2. Discussions with the Council…
Sheffield Council ‘has no obligation to axe 17,500 trees despite contract payment’ – Yorkshire Post
Tagged with: #25YEP, #airpollution, #AirQuality, #saveshefftrees, #SheffieldChainsawMassacre, #sheffieldissuper
Posted in Blog, Citywide Tree Preservation Order, Healthy Felling, News
Posted in Blog, Citywide Tree Preservation Order, Healthy Felling, News
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
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
ECOS 39 (3): ‘The city that hates trees’ – Standing up to the Sheffield Street-Tree Slaughter – British Association of Nature Conservationists
Mass felling of healthy street-trees in Sheffield has led to public uproar and a realisation that privatising tree maintenance removes the community’s influence. With cities like Sheffield suffering from under-funding for many decades (1), it is unsurprising that many local…
Tagged with: #25YEP, #airpollution, #AirQuality, #chainsawmassacre, #saveshefftrees
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
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…
Detailed plans to remove 17,500 trees in Sheffield drawn up six years ago, ‘lost’ document reveals
Detailed proposals to replace exactly 17,500 of Sheffield’s 36,000 street trees were drawn up six years ago, a newly-published document the city’s council had previously said was lost has revealed. Sheffield Council said it had “stumbled upon” a series of…
Tagged with: #25YEP, #airpollution, #AirQuality, #chainsawmassacre, #saveshefftrees
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
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
Sheffield tree protectors have changed the nation’s view of street trees
Sheffield Town Hall has provided the impetus for a new, inspiring activist campaign. It echoes past successes including the Kinder Trespass movement and even the Suffrage Society. But with the groundswell to stop the cutting down of city trees, the…
Tagged with: #25YEP, #airpollution, #AirQuality, #chainsawmassacre, #injunction, #saveshefftrees, #sheffieldissuper
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
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
Papers, please: Sheffield council to demand residents carry ID
After arresting middle-aged women for blowing plastic instruments and a vicar for assault with tambourine, Sheffield’s draconian policies are reaching a new low: next time private contractor Amey comes to fell a healthy tree, residents wishing to access their own…
Tagged with: #25YEP, #airpollution, #AirQuality, #chainsawmassacre, #injunction, #saveshefftrees, #sheffieldissuper
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, Legal notices, News
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, Legal notices, News
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
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 