1. Matters arising 1.1 Leaf clearing – Darren Butt has offered to provide large sacks to any groups of residents who wish to do their own leaf clearance on their roads. 2. Talks with SCC and Amey 2.1 The latest…
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STAG Steering Group meeting: 11th December 2018
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #Sheffield Tree Action Groups, #SouthYorkshire, STAG steering group minutes
Posted in Minutes from official meetings
Posted in Minutes from official meetings
STAG Steering Group meeting: 27th November 2018
1. Talks with Amey/SCC 1.1 A statement on the talks has been issued. Further announcements are expected soon. 1.2 A confidential discussion on progress took place. 2. Forestry Commission Investigation 2.1 Paul Selby gave a further update. 3. Fellings owing…
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #Sheffield Tree Action Groups, #SouthYorkshire, STAG steering group minutes
Posted in Minutes from official meetings
Posted in Minutes from official meetings
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
Latest #saveshefftrees Update – w/e 30th November 2018
Hello, A very busy week with quite a bit to update you on. Talks Update As flagged in last weeks weekly email, the STAG negotiating team held a fourth day of mediated talks with Sheffield Council on Monday. More progress…
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #sheffieldissuper, #SheffieldTreeMassacre
Posted in Blog, News, Uncategorized
Posted in Blog, News, Uncategorized
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…
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #Sheffield Tree Action Groups
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
Out of Common Ground, Enemies and Trees: on Sheffield Street Tree Festival
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…
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
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
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
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.
