September, autumn is setting in, and I’m driving from Devon to Nether Edge in Sheffield to learn about one of the most outstanding environmental stories of our time. The Sheffield Street Tree Festival is a perfect reason and excuse to…
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Out of Common Ground, Enemies and Trees: on Sheffield Street Tree Festival
Tagged with: #25YEP, #airpollution, #AirQuality, #chainsawmassacre, #injunction, #saveshefftrees, #SheffieldChainsawMassacre, #sheffieldissuper
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, 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…
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
Buy tickets for the Let’s Dance for the Trees event taking place on 8th December from 8 to 11pm.
We are currently collecting to support the small number of campaigners who are facing court costs after cases brought by Sheffield City Council.
