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…
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Latest #saveshefftrees Update – w/e 30th November 2018
Tagged with: #saveshefftrees, #sheffieldissuper, #SheffieldTreeMassacre
Posted in Blog, News, Uncategorized
Posted in Blog, News, Uncategorized
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
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…
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Posted in Court case reports, Court cases
Posted in Court case reports, Court cases
Sheffield Council pays £700,000 compensation bill for tree-felling delays – Yorkshire Post
Sheffield Council has paid £700,000 in compensation to its highways maintenance contractor Amey for work delays caused by its decision to set up an independent panel to advise on its controversial tree-felling strategy – whose expert recommendations to save trees…
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Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
#saveshefftrees #TreeTruths – Jeremy Barrell
Sheffield #TreeTruths 14: Amey tree expert says “canopies can trap pollution at pavement level”. Scaremongering, I’m afraid. If that really is relevant, then why has Singapore been cramming its streets & highways full of trees for the last 40 years?…
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Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
How court case raised political stakes in Sheffield tree-felling saga – Yorkshire Post
Sheffield Council has won a critical legal battle against anti-tree felling protesters – but the political stakes in the saga have been raised once again. Chris Burn reports. As Mr Justice Males convicted a retired primary school teacher, a university…
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Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
Sunday Times investigation: 110,000 trees lost to council axemen | News | The Sunday Times
More than 110,000 trees have been chopped down in three years by councils across the UK — equivalent to a sixth of the size of Sherwood Forest. A Sunday Times investigation, using freedom of information (FoI) requests, has revealed that…
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Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
Posted in Blog, Healthy Felling, News
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.
