Sheffield City Council have held a consultation in their hopes to connect Sheffield. The new route would link Neepsend – Kelham – City Centre The consultation, which ended on 3 March, was a new approach designed to transform travel throughout Sheffield, via...
Sheffield City Council has called on the Government to offer assistance to the nightlife industry as the UK’s lockdown continues. The Council submitted a set of proposals to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on 9 February, assembling an inquiry into the night-time...
During February half term, food will be provided for children by local authorities under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme. The Covid Winter Grant Scheme is a £170m package distributed by councils to support children, families and the hardest hit during the pandemic. This...
An MP is campaigning against proposed cuts to a grant for struggling breweries in Sheffield. The government plans to make cuts to Small Brewers Relief, a subsidy that offers reduction in rates of beer duty, with immediate effect. Olivia Blake MP tabled a parliamentary...
In total 11 volunteer-run libraries in Sheffield received a grant of £10.000 in 2020. The staff of those libraries will decide how they will provide the capital, in their day-to-day running. Councillor Mary Lea, of Pinstone Street, cabinet member for Culture, Parks...
Sheffield’s highway network is expected to undertake a digital overhaul by the city’s highways contractor, Amey, and Smart City operator Connexin this spring. Thousands of individual sensors communicating wirelessly will be deployed to the city’s streets, informing...
The council will spend £5m on anti-terror barriers Barkers Pool, Fargate, Pinstone St, The Moor and Tudor Square.The barriers will resist the force of six-tonne vehicles that could potentially attack pedestrians at Sheffield’s city centre. Andrew Tallas, 40, said:...
Residents who live near Sheffield General Cemetery are campaigning to save the site from being refurbished by Sheffield Council who owns the land. Sheffield Council has received a £3 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and is planning on using that money to...
Sheffield City Council have appealed for more families to foster during Foster Care Fortnight. The council are aiming to recruit between 40 and 50 additional people to become foster parents to children in care in Sheffield. Carly Speechley, Director for Children,...
Over one hundred people marched last Friday for the one-year anniversary of the Rustlings Road tree fellings in Sheffield. Supporters of all ages came together in a candlelit walk, starting at 203 Rustlings Road and ending in Endcliffe Park, led by Sheffield Tree...
Sheffield City Council decided last night to strip Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, of the Freedom of Sheffield award because of her response to the Rohingya refugee crisis. Ms Suu Kyi was awarded the highest honour by Sheffield City Council in 2005...
An activist scaled a 150-year-old oak tree in Dore on Monday in an attempt to prevent it being felled by the city council. The masked campaigner told onlookers he'd stay there all week if he had to as they passed him food and supplies from ground level A notice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Nnmf9UAzw&feature=youtu.be The new Lord Mayor was brought to tears during her inauguration speech earlier today. Labours Coun Anne Murphy was emotional when speaking about her struggles with the loss of close family members...
Sheffield City Council is taking its time to sign the deal to officially firm over the Central Library to the Chinese company. A 60-year investment partnership was signed with Sichuan Guodong by the council almost a year ago, last June. In November it was...
