Analysis Topic: Local Issues
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Amey / Acron Fell Iconic Shefffield Ash Tree 'Milly' on Millhouses Lane / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
For over 3 months the Tree campaigners of the Millhouses area of Sheffield had put up a brave effort in attempts at saving Millhouses Lane's big Ash tree 'Milly' that saw many tree campaigners out from dawn until dusk protecting the tree in all weathers, from late summer, to autumn right through to the bitter cold of late November into mid December. First came the cropping of 10 days ago that saw Amey / Acorn take street overhanging branches, but still the tree lived on, and so did the campaigners continue to brave freezing temperatures. Unfortunately on 20th December, Amey / Acorn came in the very early hours of the morning at around 4.30am to complete the felling of Milly. Which now stands no more, just a mere stump remains where once a mighty Ash tree once stood.
Saturday, December 16, 2017
The LORAX Explains What Happened to Sheffield's Street Trees 2017 / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
We are the LORAX and we speak for the trees and I'd like to say a few words if you please, regarding the story your about to see it actually happened just take it from me. BUt there is more to this story than whats on a page so please pay attention whilst I set the stage. We open in Sheffield a city they say that was made of steel and coal and they liked it that way. A town hall without nature, not one living green , so what happened to our trees, cue the music lets see....
Friday, December 15, 2017
Sheffield's 'Real' LORAX Defending the Trees From the Labour City Council Patrol Units / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Here are just a few of Sheffield's many thousands of LORAX who speak not just for the street trees but also for freedom, free speech, and democracy. Against which are martialed the forces of the establishment, a Labour controlled Sheffield city council and it's £2.2 billion PFI contractor Amey. Where we are increasingly witnessing the deployment of patrol units on the streets that go far beyond the realms of what one would expect from a British local city council, let alone a LABOUR COUNCIL! We are witnessing on a daily basis what resembles militias patrolling Sheffield's streets along with their green vested evidence gatherers that are akin to something out of an eastern european dictatorship.
Friday, December 01, 2017
Labour Sheffield City Council Election Panic Could Prompt Suspension of Tree Felling's Private Security / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The escalation this week of the Labour controlled Sheffield City Council's PFI contractor Amey deploying private security in footage and images has been generating outrage amongst Sheffield's electorate where even the mainstream press who usually tend to ridicule the tree protestors as being a fringe group have started to question recent tactics in the wake of footage of protestors being 'geckoed' i.e. squashed between walls and metal barriers.
Friday, December 01, 2017
Amey Grinch Felling Sheffield Christmas Lights Cherry Street Trees / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Labour controlled Sheffield City Council's 'streets ahead' PFI contractor Amey has deployed increased tree felling / security resources at the start of this week in an attempt to fell hundreds of trees before the end of this year by deploying what resembles an army of green capped hi vis jacketed security personnel to accompany felling crews that tend to far out number the protestors standing beside street trees in freezing temperatures across dozens of Sheffield's streets. The catalyst for this weeks escalation is the looming deadline contained within the PFI contract to fell 6,000 of Sheffield's big street trees by the end of 2017 (out of an estimated total of 36,000).
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Amey Deploys Private Security to Get Sheffield's Street Tree's Felled Before End of 2017 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Labour controlled Sheffield City Council's 'streets ahead' PFI contractor Amey has deployed increased tree felling / security resources at the start of this week in an attempt to fell hundreds of trees before the end of this year by deploying what resembles an army of green capped hi vis jacketed security personnel to accompany felling crews that tend to far out number the protestors standing beside street trees in freezing temperatures across dozens of Sheffield's streets. The catalyst for this weeks escalation is the looming deadline contained within the PFI contract to fell 6,000 of Sheffield's big street trees by the end of 2017 (out of an estimated total of 36,000).
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Labour Sheffield City Council's War on Street Tree Protestors - Day 2 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Monday witnessed a ramping up of Sheffield City Council's 'streets ahead' PFI contractor Amey's attempts to fell Sheffield's largest street trees as it appears dozens of private security personnel were deployed along side felling crews to ensure that any attempts at the preventing felling of street trees were met with a security response. The catalyst for Monday's change of tack by the city council's contractor Amey appears to be the looming deadline contained within the PFI contract to fell 6,000 of Sheffield's big street trees by the end of 2017 (out of an estimated total of 36,000).
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Sheffield City Council Deploys Private Security Against Street Tree Fellings Protestors / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield City Council's contractor Amey appears to have upped the anti in the council / Amey's long running dispute with thousands of residents opposed to the felling of thousands of 'healthy' street trees, as this week saw the deployment of private security patrols operating more aggressively than has been seen in the past in support of Amey's felling crews as they roam Sheffield's streets attempting to fell large trees before the end of this year.
Friday, October 20, 2017
Labour Sheffield City Council Employs Army of Spy's to Track Down Tree Campaigners / Felling's Watchers / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Labour controlled Sheffield city council has adopted extreme measures in an attempt at silencing dissent or disruption of it's programme to fell 6000 street trees by the end of this year out of a stock of about 30,000 mature street trees. The strategy being deployed amounts to one of intimidation of anyone who disagrees with the tree felling's programme, where even standing and watching a tree felling in progress is likely to prompt the Labour council's ever expanding army of intelligence gathers (spy's) to add watchers on to a growing list of persons of interest, regardless of whether they have actually interfered in anyway in the Labour councils tree felling's programme, as an army of evidence gathers (spy's, with cameras at hand can be found recording anyone and everyone, even those who just stop to look at the felling's underway across Sheffield's streets.
Sunday, October 15, 2017
The Stump That Amey Forget, Will it Come Back to Life? - Sheffield Trees / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
There once was a nice small cherry tree growing on a Sheffield side street producing lovely cherry blossom that the children enjoyed, then AMEY CAME said it was diseased and CUT the TREE down leaving an horrific looking stump behind! But it looked like Amey forgot all about the little stump, so find out what happened to the Stump that Amey forgot, can tree stumps come back to life?
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Friday, October 13, 2017
What Happens When Amey Fells All of a Streets Trees (Sheffield Tree Fellings) - Video / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Once Upon a Time there was a Street Full of Tree's, then Amey Came! This is a story of what happened to 1 street that was purged by the Labour Sheffield City Council's PFI contractor Amey of all of its trees. That illustrates what is happening across the city to hundreds of Sheffield's biggest trees that soak up vehicle pollution and releasing oxygen into the streets, which is why they were planted in the first place typically over a 100 years ago to help clean up Sheffield's toxic air environment of that time which given the volume of traffic remains just as toxic now as it was then.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
The Felling of Sheffield's Big Street Trees 2017 - Dobcroft Road / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield is being systematically purged of its biggest and best street trees with the initial tranche of 6000 trees by the end of 2017 nearing completion, with likely many thousands of more big street trees to be felled during the remaining years of the Labour Sheffield City Council's 25 year Streets Ahead contract with Amey.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Crazy Upside Down Car Hanging off the Road on a Sheffield Tinsley Street / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Drive down to the Tinsley area of Sheffield and you may be in for a surprise scence, one of a car literally hanging upside down on a pealed roll way. Yes it's difficult to imagine so see the video and the still images of what a real car hanging off a pealed road surface looks like. Though this sculpture is not going to hang around for long so if you want to see it be quick, cos likely it will be gone within days.
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Armed Police Sheffield Following Asian Men Around Meadowhall Shopping Centre / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The raising of the terror alert level following the attempted mass killing on a London tube train has resulted in machine gun armed police on patrol in public places, not just in London but across Britain, and so has been the experience of shoppers at Sheffield's Meadowhall shopping centre.
Saturday, September 09, 2017
Sheffield's Best Street Tree, Chelsea Road Elm Tree to be Felled / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
The Labour run Sheffield city council has decided to fell Sheffield's best street tree, the Chelsea Road Elm that had been awarded England's second best tree of the year award by the Woodland Trust. This is despite repeated promises that it would not be felled, but with Amey's initial tree felling tranche of felling 6000 street trees nearing completion, so now those trees that previously had been deemed to have been saved are now set to be felled.
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
London Tree Officer Criticises Sheffield City Council Over Felling of Thousands of Healthy Trees / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
London Tree Officer, Ian Dalton in an open letter to Sheffield City Council criticised the councils campaign of misinformation in respect of the felling of thousands of healthy tree's that has prompted thousands of Sheffielders to campaign against the felling's, resulting in many ordinary people being taken to court by an increasingly dictatorial council.
Tuesday, August 08, 2017
What Happened to Thousands of Sheffield's Street Trees 2017 - Fellings Documentary / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Formerly Britain's greenest city, Sheffield has become infamous world wide for the felling of thousands of the cities biggest and best street trees. This documentary answers the many questions of exactly what is happening and why and what are the likely economic and environmental consequences to follow the initial felling of 6,000 trees by the by Spanish Ferrovial owned Amey, as the first tranche of 6000 trees to be felled nears completion. The consequences of which Sheffield will pay a heavy price for decades to come, and not just economic consequences in terms of lost capital value to Sheffield's property market, but health and environmental consequences, as at a time of heightened climate change awareness, Sheffield City Council is going in the opposite direction to recommended climate change alleviation measures of greater tree leaf coverage so as to soak up carbon from the atmosphere and offer people and properties shade during the ever hotter summer months.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Professor Warns of Economic and Health Costs of Sheffield Tree Felling's / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Professor Nigel Dunnett of the University of Sheffield today on BBC Look North warned of the economic and health consequences of the Amey / Labour City Council's extensive Sheffield trees felling programme that is now entering it's final stages with just 10% of 6000 targeted trees remaining standing. Whist the Council continues with is court case against Tree campaigners.
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Labour Sheffield City Council Playing Game of Thrones with Street Trees / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Amey / Labour city council's objective is to kill and remove at least 6,000 of Sheffield's biggest and best tree's in support of which Amey use excuses such as that the trees are displacing curb stones. Here tree expert Jeremy Barrell for the BBC One Show takes a close look at many of Sheffield's trees marked for death, and gives his damning verdict that none of the trees he has looked at need to be felled. In stark contrast to Amey / Labour city council that is determined to kill at least 6,000 of Sheffield's street trees so as to avoid annual tree maintenance costs such as pruning and installation of solutions such as flex-paving.
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Sheffield Tramlines Music Festival 2017 at Peace Gardens / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Sheffield is holding it's annual Tramlines Music festival weekend (Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd July), with music stages situated not just across the city centre but across many of Sheffield's best parks, pumping out music to cater for all tastes, and you don't have to pay for expensive wrist bands to enjoy the Tramlines experience as there are many free stages across the city such as in the Peace Gardens which we visited Saturday amongst other venues. Here's how the Peace Gardens music went down, where the crowd was about half that of last year, probably due to a poor weather forecast for Saturday. And remember that Tramlines continues Sunday across the city for its third and final day.