Environment Secretary Michael Gove has accused Sheffield City Council of “environmental vandalism” and promised to do “anything required” to end its controversial tree-felling programme. Thousands of trees, assessed as dead, dying, diseased, damaging or dangerous, have been cut down. Campaigners…
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Jeremy Corbyn ‘backs calls for Sheffield tree-felling work to be paused’
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is backing calls for controversial tree-felling work in Sheffield to be paused, The Yorkshire Post understands. Mr Corbyn is yet to speak publicly on the row between the city’s Labour-led council and campaigners over the felling…
#saveshefftrees Round Up – March 22nd 2018 – RIP Duchess
Rivelin Valley Road proved to be a decoy “felling” this morning. There were 5 stony faced Security Staff standing around for a while backed up to a wall and two, somewhat smug looking, Acorn employees sitting in their van parked…
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Watch “The city at war over its trees – BBC News” on YouTube
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#saveshefftrees Round up – March 21st 2018 – aggressive trumpet blowing is blown out of proportion
And… they were back on Rivelin Valley Road this morning. 40 people in HiViz counted early on….Police, Acorn, Amey Barrier men and Servoca Security Staff. Let’s just pause there for a moment to think a bit about the Lime trees…
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#saveshefftrees Round Up – Tuesday March 20th 2018 – Rivelin Valley Rd Butchered
Today Rivelin Valley Road, the second longest Lime avenue in England, lost TWO of its majestic, healthy, over 100 year-old Lime trees. This avenue is situated in Paul Blomfield’s constituency who, only a week ago, said as part of a…
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Sheffield left off Best Places to Live list over city’s bitter tree-felling dispute
Sheffield’s bitter row over tree-felling has seen it left out of a prestigious list of the country’s most desirable places to live. The city, where protests have been held over the loss of trees, has this year not been included…
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Something’s amiss when Jarvis and Gove are on the same side | Rebecca Nicholson | Opinion | The Guardian
I can’t imagine that Michael Gove and Jarvis Cocker often share the same point of view, but both are opposed to Sheffield council’s policy of felling up to 25,000 trees deemed “dangerous” and replacing them with saplings. Gove has called…
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#saveshefftrees update Friday 16th March
Daily News Round-up – March 16th 2018 What a day of waiting, highs, lows, Samba, Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio Four, BBC Radio Two and, sadly, the loss of a Healthy Lime Tree. Quote of the Day: Jarvis Cocker on Radio…
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Sheffield trees: Jarvis Cocker brands felling ‘crazy’ – BBC News
Musician Jarvis Cocker has described the felling of thousands of trees in his home city of Sheffield as “crazy”. The former Pulp frontman is joining singer-songwriter Richard Hawley to DJ at an event raising funds for the Sheffield Tree Action…
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Lord Scriven demands answers from South Yorkshire Police Chief Constable over city’s tree-felling works
Former Sheffield Council leader Paul Scriven has written back to the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police and warned him he was willing to refer him to the police complaints watchdog over the force’s handling of the controversial tree felling…
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Toxic Tea and Other Tales From an English Tree War – The New York Times
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Jared O’Mara becomes third Sheffield MP in 24 hours to demand halt to tree-felling work
Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O’Mara has become the third city-based MP within 24 hours to call for a halt to controversial tree-felling work by Sheffield Council. In a strongly-worded statement sent to The Yorkshire Post this afternoon, Mr O’Mara, who…
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Sheffield MPs urge council to pause tree felling | UK news | The Guardian
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#saveshefftrees update Monday 12th March –
Another tough week or so on the streets. But despite this, we believe the campaign has never been at a stronger point. Hopefully in reading this email you’ll see why. The felling crews were out for four out of five…
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The Yorkshire Post says: How many trees are to be felled? – Yorkshire Post
THE position of Paul Billington, the council director in charge of Sheffield’s controversial tree-felling programme, is increasingly becoming untenable as The Yorkshire Post today reveals a significant discrepancy between figures he gave to a High Court judge and those forcibly…
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Secret plan to fell half of Sheffield’s street trees revealed
For years, Sheffield City Council has refused to reveal most of its 25-year contract with multinational company Amey. Now, thanks to Freedom of Information Act requests (and an intervention by the Information Commissioner when the Council refused), we know why.…
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#saveshefftrees campaigner letter to Chief of Police – Getting the balance right
My email to Dr Billings today Dear Dr Billings I am writing to express my concern regarding recent arrests of peaceful protesters in Sheffield using low grade traffic legislation, Section 303 of the Highways Act 1980. As I am sure…
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Sheffield Council forced to reveal target to remove 17,500 street trees under PFI deal – Yorkshire Post
Sheffield Council has been forced to reveal a hugely-controversial PFI highways maintenance contract contains a target to cut down almost half of the city’s 36,000 street trees and replace them with saplings. The battle to save Sheffield’s trees: Six years…
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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 