Analysis Topic: Local Issues
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
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.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Sheffield Tramlines Music Festival 21st to 23rd July 2017 / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Sheffield's big music festival 'Tramlines' is back for another year, with music stages situated not just across the city centre but across Sheffield's many 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 will be several free stages across the city such as in the Peace Gardens. Here is our unique look at last years Sheffield Tramlines Music Festival 2016.
Friday, July 14, 2017
BBC Tree Expert's Verdict on Sheffield Amey / Labour City Council Tree Felling's / 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.
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Amey Fells Trees on Whirlowdale Crescent Near Dobcroft School, Sheffield / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Dobcroft school children were in for a shock when they emerged after lessons to witness the carnage left behind by Amey, leaving two of the streets majestic trees as mutilated towering stumps, devoid of life, zombie trees! A shock for young eyes every morning and afternoon.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Sheffield Street Tree Protestors / Campaigners vs Amey Labour City Council 2017 / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Sheffield tree protestors vs Amey's unnecessary plan to kill and remove at least 6000 of Sheffield's 35,000 street trees. Virtually all of the trees being removed are mature healthy trees so that Amey does not have to undertake maintenance for the duration of their 25 year contract, such as annual pruning or installation of solutions such as flexi-paving as is widespread elsewhere.
Monday, July 10, 2017
Sheffield Street Trees - Amey / Labour City Council Tree Felling 2017 / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Here's a taste of what is happening to thousands of Sheffield's mature street trees on virtually every working day during 2017. Amey has been tasked with felling 6,000 of Sheffield's biggest and most beautiful street trees that in many cases that have taken over 100 years to mature. All that invested time is now being squandered so that the Labour controlled city council's contractor can avoid annual trees maintenance costs. Amey's solution is to fell the tree's, the consequences of which to many will only become apparent afterwards, as tree lined streets that bring a taste of the countryside to even inner city areas are increasingly become bland concrete wastelands. In fact the felling of thousands of large mature street tree's may be marking the end of Sheffield's house prices bull run as the value of trees taken 100 years to mature has now been lost to many streets.
Thursday, July 06, 2017
Sheffield Chelsea Road Elm Tree, 1 of 6,000 Trees Amey / Labour City Council to Fell / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
The Chelsea Road Elm tree is probably the most prominent of thousands of Sheffield's big trees that are under a death sentence by Amey / City Council. Already over 4000 trees have been felled and likely by the time Amey / Labour city council are finished another 4,000 could have been felled, about 1/4 of Sheffield's big tree populations binge wiped out! And where it will take several decades for any replacement saplings to fill the voids left on Sheffield's streets. So where once Sheffield had tree lined suburbs, now many streets are set to become barren concrete wastelands.
Friday, June 30, 2017
Sheffield Hanover Tower Cladding Nightmare as Costs Spiral Out of Control / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Broomhall Hanover flats tower are Sheffield's first tower blocks to fail urgent fire safety tests in the wake of the Grenfell Tower Fire disaster that prompted the city council to in a panic announce the removal of all of the substandard cladding from Hanover Tower, work on which began earlier this week, starting with two sides of the tower blocks cordoned off.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Sheffield Broomhall Hanover Flats Tower Block Cladding Could Take Months to Remove! / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Broomhall Hanover flats twin towers were Sheffield's first tower blocks to fail urgent fire safety tests in the wake of the Grenfell Tower Fire disaster that prompted the city council to in a panic announce the removal of all cladding from Hanover Tower work on which began early morning yesterday, with two sides of the tower blocks cordoned off. Meanwhile the council reassured residents that they were 'safe', despite the panic move on behalf of the council.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Sheffield Broomhall Hanover Tower Block Fails Safety Test, Cladding Removal Today / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The first Sheffield tower block to be tested has failed a fire safety test that has prompted the city council to in a panic start to remove cladding from the Broomhall Hanover Tower Block today, though at the same time the council is reassuring residents that it is safe to remain in the block whilst the emergency removable of the cladding is underway. Whilst it could take upto 3 weeks for the cladding to ve removed and so the Council have offered temporary accommodation for those who want to move out.
Saturday, June 24, 2017
Sheffield Great Flood of 2007, 10 Years On - Unique Timeline of What Happened / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
It is now 10 years since the Sheffield Great Flood of June 2007 that split the city in two and claimed 2 lives, doing much damage to over 2000 properties that lined the river bank that runs through the the whole city from Totley in the South to Meadowhall in the North, many suffering major flood damage, and here's a unique time line of what happened before, during and after in June 2007.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Green Party Could Control Sheffield City Council Balance of Power Local Election 2018 / Local / UK Local Elections
By: N_Walayat
The Green party with 4 Sheffield Council seats could see their numbers rise to 5 tonight at the Nether Edge by election that could set the scene for a shock Labour loss of control of the city council at the May 2018 local elections, by handing the Green's the balance of power so that a minority Labour could continue in power.
The key driver in the surge in the Green vote is Sheffield City Council's £2 billion PFI contract with Spanish owned firm Amey, effectively outsourcing local democracy to a multinational that over the past 2 years has gone out of its way to anger and outrage Sheffield's residents most notably in its wholesale felling of thousands of Sheffield's biggest and most beautiful trees, likely for profit such as for use as bio fuel as the following video illustrates.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Nether Edge & Sharrow By-Election, Will Labour Lose Safe Council Seat, Sheffield? / Local / UK Local Elections
By: N_Walayat
The Sheffield city council by election is to be held in the safe Labour council seat of Nether Edge & Sharrow tomorrow Thursday 22nd of June. Therefore the Labour candidate could be forgiven for taking a laid back approach to the election which following Jeremy Corbyn's spectacular general election campaign and outcome will surely be a walkover. Especially given that Labour managed to unseat former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg in Sheffield Hallam barely 2 weeks ago.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Sprinklers for All 24 Sheffield City Council Tower Blocks, What About Other 100? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield city council announces on twitter that they will be installing sprinkers in all of their 24 tower blocks. Though it's a pity it took the deaths of approx 100 people at Grenfell Tower in Kensington for SCC to do what they should have done many years ago, espcially in the wake of the 2009 Lakanal House tower block fire. Also, no time table was given for when the installaiton of sprinkers will be completed. Is it tasked as a matter of urgency i.e. within a couple of months, or will the council put their feet up and take several years?
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Monday, June 19, 2017
Amey Playing Cat and Mouse Game with Sheffield Residents and Tree Campaigners / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Amey's £2 billion PFI "Streets Ahead" contract with Sheffield City Council that the people of Sheffield had no say in, apparently involves the cutting down of tens of thousands of Sheffield's biggest and most beautiful trees. Whilst some of the trees do need to go i.e. because of disease, but most of the trees are apparently being cut down so as to avoid annual 'maintenance' costs. That and potential for profit given that the wood from a large trees could be worth several thousands of pounds.
Friday, June 02, 2017
Will Nick Clegg Lose Sheffield Hallam Seat to Labour in Election 2017? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
In the 2015 General Election former Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg put up a valiant battle in the face of a national Liberal Democrat wipeout. For in 2015 the opinion pollsters consistently had Labour winning the Sheffield Hallam Lib-Dem seat. Instead Nick Clegg managed to cling on in the wake of a Lib Dem bloodbath, however he did fall by a whopping 13% tumbling from 53.4% to 40% of the voter. Whilst Labour doubled their share from 16.1% to 35.8%, just 4.2% behind Nick Clegg. Whilst the Tories on just 13.6% clearly don't stand any chance of winning Sheffield Hallam in this election at least.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Weston Park Summer Fayre - Sheffield - Sunday 21st May 2017 / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Don't forget folks that Sheffield will be holding it's annual Weston Park Summer Fayre on Sunday 21st of May 2017. That's just a week or less from now!
The fair or fayre has been running for a good 20 years that we have attended several times over the years. Lots of family fun stuff to do including rides, shows, food stalls and more. And best of all Entry is FREE! The fayre starts at 11am and ends at 5pm. And if the weather turns out to be not so good you can always pop into the Museum.
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Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Sheffield Tree Fellings - Labour City Council Outsourcing Local Democracy to Amey / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
It may be the start of the new year but t is unlikely to bring a halt to the tree felling rampage currently underway in Sheffield, where apparently by the end of 2017, 6000 big street trees will have been felled out of a population of a about 30,000, big street trees which have been deemed by the councils PFI contractor Amey too costly to maintain and so have to go so as to maximise profit.
In response to the rampage thousands of Sheffielders have been protesting many coalescing across a number of disperate facebook groups in an attempt to both publicise and halt the tree felling's before they claim thousands more of the Sheffield's biggest and best trees. Unfortunately there is little sign that the campaigns and voices of reason have had any effect on the city council which remains determined to allow Amey to fulfill its objectives regardless of the damage being done to Sheffield's streets. The reasons for which are shrouded in secrecy as to why Sheffield city councilors appear deaf, dumb and blind, which implies that the councillors have out sourced the running of Sheffield to a foreign multi-national, the Spanish Ferrovial family owned Amey.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
EIS Sheffield Warns Parents Not to take Photos of their Children on School Sports Days! / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The jobs worth's at the English Institute of Sports (EIS) situated in Sheffield are apparently warning parents not to take photos of their children on school sports days held at the EIS, as illustrated by the letter issued by Greystones Primary School to all parents, that is holding it's Sports Day today.
The EIS has advised us that parents are not allowed to take photographs....
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Silverdale, High Storrs, City Council Determined to Destroy Sheffield's Best State Schools / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
An analysis of Sheffield's school league tables reveals a bleak picture of virtually all of Sheffield's best state schools on a downwards trend trajectory where the only school to buck the trend being Tapton, whilst Sheffield's best ranked state school (Silverdale) also shows a marginal decline. However, further down the league tables the downwards spiral in performance accelerates with King Ecgbert, Bradfield and High Storrs leading the way.