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
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
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
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
We are currently collecting to support the small number of campaigners who are facing court costs after cases brought by Sheffield City Council.
We are proud to announce the first Sheffield Street Tree Festival with events taking place throughout the day on Saturday 29th September.
