We Declare a Nature Emergency for Sheffield

21st May 2021

Today on Friday May 21st we are joining campaigners, organisations and independent businesses across our city in declaring a nature…

Climate Action Now

Council election manifesto – the Green Budget for People & Planet

4th April 2021

Green Party councillors proposed this amendment to the Labour budget proposals in March – it was voted down via the…

Heather burning on moorland

Sheffield Council supports Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill

31st March 2021

A Green motion has led to Sheffield Council formally declaring support for the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. The Greens’…

Allotment fires and smoke

27th February 2021

Cllr Paul Turpin has written to the press about allotment fires and smoke.   Dear Editor, In a brand new…

Ruth and Douglas at Ball St Bridge Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

City ward councillors welcome Connecting Sheffield plans for Kelham Island & Neepsend

23rd February 2021

The Green City ward councillors welcome the Connecting Sheffield proposals for improving active travel infrastructure by adding segregated cycle lanes…

A Green View for years to come

18th January 2021

Sheffield Green Party sets out vision for Sheffield Local Plan Ahead of a council scrutiny meeting to discuss progress with…

The Sheffield Green View 2020

18th January 2021

Local Plan Issues and Options consultation response from Sheffield Green Party October 2020 Table of Contents Introduction Spatial strategy How…

Cllr Paul Turpin with Green Party leader Sian Berry at the Inner Ring Road

Now is not the time to roll back environmental progress

18th November 2020

Councillor Paul Turpin writes …. Sheffield City Council announced a pause on plans for the citywide Clean Air Zone (CAZ) citing…

Graham Santer and dog

Owlthorpe Fields under threat

28th May 2020

Owlthorpe Fields serve as the only pedestrian accessible biodiverse green space where I live

Christine Gilligan Kubo

Sheffield needs to see climate emergency action now

4th January 2020

Under irresistible pressure from the Green Party and Extinction Rebellion, the Labour-run council declared a climate emergency on February 6th 2019.

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