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…
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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
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
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
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
First report from the Crown Court – 5th June 2018
It was a day of two gasps, bracketed by a pair of curve balls. The trial of Paul Brooke, Benoit Compin, Simon Crump and Fran Grace began with a lengthy preamble about procedural technicalities. Also discussed was the question of…
Tagged with: #injunction, #saveshefftrees, #Sheffield, #SheffieldStreetTrees, #SouthYorkshire, #TreeProtectors'CourtCase
Posted in Blog, Court cases, News
Posted in Blog, Court cases, News
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.
