Council
Active Travel – what went wrong?
22nd May 2020
There’s been a surge in walking and cycling in the pandemic. Government has promised extra billions. It’s what Greens have campaigned for, for many years. So how is it looking in Sheffield?
Sheffield Green Party voice concern as council restricts public say on planning decisions in Sheffield
12th May 2020
Greens Cllr Douglas Johnson and Brian Holmshaw comment on anti-democratic changes to Planning Committees that restrict the right to speak for both the public and community stakeholder groups
Lock-down should not mean watering down democracy
30th April 2020
Green councillor Douglas Johnson commented after Labour and LibDem councillors voted for more decision-making to be made by officers, not elected councillors, under emergency arrangements.
Sheffield Council must pay grants out to small businesses urgently
21st April 2020
New figures show that Sheffield lags behind other Yorkshire authorities when it comes to paying out grant funding to businesses in the lockdown.
Sheffield Greens call for the government to guarantee investment in South Yorkshire after Brexit
12th March 2020
Green Councillors have raised questions about replacing lost EU funding after Brexit
Sheffield Green Party Table Amendments to Council Budget
3rd March 2020
Sheffield’s Green Party councillors have tabled a series of amendments to the administration’s annual budget.
On May 7th you can turn around a broken democracy in Sheffield
6th February 2020
The Planning & Highways Committee meeting on January 28th underlined the woeful state of democracy in Sheffield.
Green Party proposals to February’s Council
4th February 2020
Green Party councillors have submitted a raft of proposals to the full meeting of Sheffield City Council in February
Sheffield Green Party proposals for council committee system
27th January 2020
Sheffield City Council has to come up with a model for how a new committee system will work. Sheffield Green Party submitted outline proposals to the council.
Greens welcome e-bikes to make roads safer from dangerous parking
22nd January 2020
A Green Party suggestion to make roads and pavements safer from illegal parking is taking off, as a trial of e-bikes is being supplied to parking enforcement officers.