Category: Sheffield
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Sheffield Best Secondary Schools Analysis for 2015 School Place Applications / Local / Sheffield
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Parents of approx 6000 Sheffield students will be counting down to the deadline for making a secondary school application for the academic year starting September 2015, where the deadline for online applications is 22nd October 2014 and 31st October for paper applications with supporting information to be supplied by no later than 26th November. Whilst students who fail to make an application will be allocated a school place by the Admissions team which will NOT necessarily be at the students catchment area school.
Friday, October 10, 2014
Sheffield Fears Ebola Outbreak Following Royal Hallamshire Hospital Baldrick Decision / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The committee of Baldricks in charge of the NHS have arrived at a cunning plan for containment of the deadly Ebola virus WHEN it arrives on Britain’s shores by SPREADING infected people throughout the country right into the heart of Britain’s largest cities so as to ensure maximum risk of infection. And so Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital has been designated as South Yorkshire's first hospital to act as source for infection of the cities 550k population.
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Sheffield Eid Festival 2014, Millhouses Park Photos / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Sheffield Eid Festival of 2014 expanded from 1 day to a 2 day event turned out to be a tale of 2 days, with only approx 4,000 people attending on Saturday (2nd August) compared to twice the number of at least 8,000 attending on Sunday (3rd August). Though this mismatch between numbers attending had less to do with the organisers and more to do with the Met Office / BBC's inaccurate weather forecast of rain literally for the whole of the Saturday time-table that failed to materialise.
Friday, August 01, 2014
Gaza Death Cloud Hangs Over Sheffield Eid Festival 2014 at Millhouses Park / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Many of the regions muslim communities had been eagerly looking forward to celebrating the end of the month of Ramadan by enjoying their second year of festivities at the Sheffield Eid Festival to be held at Millhouses park this weekend on 2nd and 3rd August 2014, that last year was proclaimed as being a huge success, attended by over 7,000 people due to the fact that entry was / is FREE.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Sheffield House Prices Divergence - Silverdale Close, Affluent Area's Forecast / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield house prices are showing a huge divergence between affluent and deprived areas of the city in terms of the rate of annual increase where typically affluent areas of the city are experiencing a trend in house price inflation of an average of 5% per annum whilst deprived areas are experiencing what can only be classed as random price action, where similar properties even on the same street can deviate greatly by as much as 1/3rd in price as illustrated by several study's of sale prices of properties sold across streets in deprived areas of the city that have yet to exhibit a trend in house prices.
Friday, May 23, 2014
Sheffield, Rotherham Temporary House Prices Crash Triggered by New Roma Ghetto's / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Whilst a house prices boom is underway in much of the country and not just London's white hot property market but also in much of Yorkshire with strong demand from buyers pushing house prices in cities such as Leeds to nudge above a 10% annual house price inflation rate, instead asking prices in Sheffield, and its poorer neighbouring cousin Rotherham have instead plunged back into the red with Sheffield at an average of -2% and Rotherham at -3%.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Sheffield Labour Councils Baldrick Plan to Create Mega Primary Schools, Greystones Example / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The parents of Sheffield's primary age children in ever greater numbers each year tend to find that their child has been rejected for a place at their school of choice, even for catchment area schools due to the blanket reason for rejection being that of schools being over-subscribed. However, what this masks is the underlying truth of severe cuts in the schools budget / places over many years that has been further exacerbated by the huge influx of several thousand's of east european migrant families.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Sheffield, Rotherham Roma Benefits Plague, Ch5 Documentary Gypsies on Benefits & Proud / Local / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Channel 5 will be showing a documentary tonight (at 9pm, also available on demand) that will illuminate the consequences of out of control eastern european mass immigration that has resulted in literally a flood of migrants whose primary focus is NOT to work hard but to maximise benefits by moving whole villages lock stock and barrel to cities such as Birmingham, Sheffield and Rotherham which is the focus of today's C4 programme.
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Sheffield Half Marathon Cancelled Incompetent Organisers Refusing to Refund Runners / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield, supposedly the city of sport has been truly nationally humiliated as within minutes of the start of the cities annual half marathon it was cancelled due to for all reasons lack of water, which left some 4,500 runners, many of whom had trained for months to stand twiddling their thumbs. Some in disgust decided to run the half marathon anyway. However, the organisers were not even competent at canceling the race by failing to properly announce to all of the entrants that the race had indeed been cancelled so over half the entrants followed the lead of those at the front and ran the race, relying on the good people of Sheffield to provide them with water enroute.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Sheffield Best Estate Agents, Buyer and Seller Rating / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
(Last Update 2nd May 2014) Sheffield has a very active housing market with over 2,500 properties on the market at any one time and with nearby Rotherham another 1,000 that generates more than £2 million in commissions annually shared out between more than 20 local estate agents.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Sheffield, Rotherham Best Rated Estate Agents as Voted by Home Sellers / Vendors / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
(Last Updated 2nd May 2014) Sheffield at anyone time has over 2,500 properties on the market with nearby Rotherham another 1,000 resulting in a large and highly active market with many estate agents of all shapes and sizes fighting for the highly lucrative sales fees and percentages of sales.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Save Sheffield From Labour! Roma Immigration Crisis the Latest Labour Council Failure / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The mainstream media continues to report on the consequences of the most recent wave of mass immigration underway from eastern europe in the form of Roma villages moving lock, stock and barrel to places such as Sheffield's Page Hall area or as it is being to refer to by some locals as Page Hole, as the latest wave of migration appears to have prompted panic amongst pro-immigration Labour politicians on fears of a voter back lash such as the former Labour Home Secretary, David Blunkett who recently warned of the potential for civil unrest during 2014 as a consequence of the arrival of as many as 8000 Roma peoples with a concentration of approx 4,000 in the Page Hall area alone.
Friday, January 17, 2014
Sheffield Roma Riots 2014 Warns Labour MP David Blunkett - Immigration Cultural Catastrophe / Local / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
It is not often that left wing normally pro-immigration Labour MP's can be found to be warning of the consequences of mass immigration, and not just any old back bencher but the former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett was recently widely reported in the mainstream media warning of the consequences of immigration in the form of the ongoing influx of Roma communities from eastern europe into his home city of Sheffield where the Roma population has soared from less one hundred 8 years ago to well over 4,000 today, concentrated in pockets of the city such as Page Hall, that he warns could spill over into violence on the streets due to the clash of cultures between the indigenous / settled communities and the huge Roma influx underway as Czech, Slovak and Romanian Roma villages are literally moving lock stock and barrel to places such as Sheffield to draw on 15-20 times the financial value of benefits and social services that they are in receipt of in the likes of Romania.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Sheffield Best and Worst Areas to Live, House Buying Analysis Map / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Sheffield is Britain's fifth largest city with a population of 552,000 people that occupy's the south west quadrant of the county of South Yorkshire, which given its central UK position, prominent rail and motorway links is a favourable destination for national and international migrants from nearby towns and further afield given its relatively low favourable house prices.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Sheffield House Prices Forecast, UK, Yorkshire and Humber / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Whilst average UK house prices are rising at an annual rate of 4%, London on the other hand is trundling along at near 10% per annum, homing in on their 2007 highs, meanwhile areas such as Yorkshire and Humberside are lagging behind the national trend with average house prices rising at an annual rate of just 3% and where Sheffield, Y&H's largest city has been seized upon by both politicians and the mainstream press to make the point that house prices are only booming in London whilst cities such as Sheffield are assumed to be continuing to stagnate.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Sheffield's First Eid Festival at Millhouses Park - Lots of Visitors But Little To Do / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield's first ever Eid festival organised by the Sheffield Heritage Foundation was held at Millhouses park on Saturday 10th August (12-8pm). The festival got off to a very slow start with barely a few hundred people visible some 2 hours into the event.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Sheffield City Council Selective Licensing New 25% Landlord Tax to Trigger House Prices Drop? / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Many of Sheffield's landlords are in uproar as the Council looks set to impose what amounts to an average 25% tax on the bottom end of the cities privately rented housing sector by means of a £1000 additional charge to existing fees on EACH property, given that such targeted properties would yield an annual rental income of between £300 and £400 per month, therefore this amounts to a tax of between 20% and 27% of a years rental income that wipes out most of the profit earned which will have the effect of triggering Landlords to rush to dump and avoid the bottom end of the rental sector which suggests an imminent temporary drop in house prices at the bottom end of the cities housing market, that would also suggest an opportunity for first time buyers this summer.
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Sheffield Fly Tipping Soars 180% Following 50% Black Bin Collections Cut, Whilst Veolia Profits / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Labour run Sheffield City's baldrick-esk councillor's cunning plan of last year to cut costs by cutting black bin waste collections by 50% has not only FAILED to result in a cut in the waste management budget but has resulted in an increase in fly tipping by over 180% as the number of reported cases of fly tipping soar city wide to 576 for 2012/13 as compared to 204 for 2011/12 which could yet double again for 2013/14, whilst the French multinational waste contracting firm Veolia's annual UK profits continue to soar at the rate of 20% per annum.
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Sheffield City Council Baldrick Plan to Cut Waste Collections Costs Fails / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield City Council bureaucrats baldrick-esk cunning plan of last year to cut costs by cutting black bin waste collections by 50% has abysmally failed in every respect as official figures reveal no spending is expected to be cut for 2013-14, and the final actual amount expended is likely to INCREASE, whilst at the same time cutting waste collections by 50% is resulting in many households being left with growing mountains of uncollected waste.
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Sheffield School Places Chaos 2013, Labour Run City Council Cuts 10,000 Places / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
A large number of parents will be finding during 2013 that their child will not have been given a place at an catchment area school, with the excuse given that the school is full and thus instead given places many miles away. The reason why this is happening with increasingly frequency is as a consequence of the Labour run Sheffield City Council continuing the Liberal Democrats programme for deep cuts in Sheffield's education budget as the below graph illustrates that in nominal terms has seen the education budget cut by 11% since 2010 and 17% in real terms (after inflation of 3% per annum), despite continuously increasing council tax bills.