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.

Save our trees

Sheffield Greens welcome No Stump City report

17th August 2018

Sheffield Green Party welcomes the No Stump City report that describes profits from the massive £2.2 billion Streets Ahead project being siphoned off to companies who do not pay tax in the UK

The shield on the Old Coroner's Court

Demolition plans for Old Coroner’s Court dropped

15th August 2018

City Ward Green councillors have welcomed the formal withdrawal of demolition plans for the Old Coroner’s Court on Nursery St.

Sheffield Moors

Sheffield Greens release report about destruction and slaughter on the moors

9th August 2018

Sheffield Green Party has released a report on the state of the moors, including the slaughter of wildlife on them.

It is now more difficult to get a Blue Badge

8th August 2018

While there are more prosecutions for illegally using Blue Badges for free parking disabled people are now finding it much more difficult, if not impossible, to get one.

Greens support Fair Funding for Sheffield Schools

25th July 2018

I’m a teacher and I join Sheffield Greens in supporting the Star’s Fair Funding for Sheffield Schools petition

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