Kaltum Rivers

Green councillor welcomes call for greater transparency from housing developers

19th September 2018

Councillor Kaltum Rivers has welcomed the strong support received by a petition calling for the council to demand greater transparency from developers when making claims about the affordability of housing

Sign at protest: We're missing out Hen Harriers

Sheffield Green Party concerned at loss of one of ‘our’ hen harriers

17th September 2018

Sheffield Green Party has expressed its concern at the disappearance and apparent death of the young hen harrier “Olivia”, which fledged from a nest in the Peak District this summer

Cllr Martin Phipps

Greens Welcome Walk-In Centre U-turn

14th September 2018

Green councillors welcome news that planned closures of these vital public services have been dropped

Douglas Johnson

Residents should be fairly compensated for impact of city development, say Greens

13th September 2018

Sheffield Greens have called a Council consultation a “stitch-up,” saying the questionnaire is designed to give the answer the Labour Administration wants to hear.

Bernard Little with Blue and Black Bins

The distressing truth about the “improved recycling service”

12th September 2018

It was ‘pat yourselves on the back’ time for the Labour-run council at the September 5th council meeting with their motion to coincide with the brown bin roll out.

Bins

Collection changes won’t help us recycle more

11th September 2018

Residents will know that new recycling bins are currently being rolled out in Sheffield this autumn. We are getting more bins but fewer collections, and no overall change to what can and can’t be recycled

Sheffield Townhall

Report from September’s council meeting

7th September 2018

Here is what happened at September’s full council meeting, the one day in the month when all Sheffield’s elected councillors get together.

Cllrs Martin Phipps, Douglas Johnson and Alison Teal

What we learnt (or didn’t) at the July Council meeting

31st August 2018

Green councillors asked questions about the use of injunctions, compromise on the street trees dispute, the disposal of heritage assets, funding for community infrastructure and single-use plastics

Refugees

Sheffield has a long history of helping people fleeing persecution

22nd August 2018

Sheffield was the UK’s very first City of Sanctuary and we have many wonderful and dedicated organisations helping people forced to leave their home countries.

Buses

We urgently need to get public transport back under public control

21st August 2018

Stagecoach have not responded to public outrage over cuts to the busy 52 bus service running through Broomhill, Crookes and Walkley to Hillsborough.

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