Jeffrey Shaw

Both wrong. The Tram runs up/down West St to/from the A61 Ring Road, not far from RHH. And there are at least some buses from Ecclesall Rd. (but not the old no.50- shame!)

Most (but not quite all) major projects overrun on time or cost (or both!) Private sector ones too!

Fleet numbers aside, there are legal requirements that every bus must show (externally or, if shown internally, wording visible externally): a. the maximum seated capacity; b. the weight; and c. the legal owner's name/address.

I'd have guessed Ebb & Flo. Weren't they cartooned in The Star too?

This means that the tenant T (= leaseholder) must have owned the leasehold of the house or flat for at least two years, the point at which statutory rights arise. However: a. the two years period begins from when HMLR made a preliminary note of T's acquisition- well before registration of title, but often a week or two later than the date on which the acquisition (purchase etc.) was completed; and b. there is no 'two-year' qualifying period for a group of Ts collectively acquiring the freehold reversion to their block of leasehold flats. Jeffrey Shaw, Solicitor and Sole Principal Nether Edge Law, PO Box 3439, Sheffield S11 8NH Telephone: 0114-268 7638 or 0845-108 0109 Fax: 0114-268 7718 E-mail: [email protected]

Thank you. Maybe this thread should be moved over there?

Also: a useful resource is Shelter, at https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice Jeffrey Shaw, Solicitor and Sole Principal Nether Edge Law, PO Box 3439, Sheffield S11 8NH Telephone: 0114-268 7638 or 0845-108 0109 Fax: 0114-268 7718 E-mail: [email protected]

Thank you for plaudits. I agree that there's absolutely no point in contacting Coppen- and its associate PAS Property Services Ltd- by post (with or without an SAE) or telephone or an attempted visit to its premises. Rely only on using statutory rights as explained at inordinate length on the PROPERTY forum [which seems to have vanished!] Jeffrey Shaw, Solicitor and Sole Principal Nether Edge Law, PO Box 3439, Sheffield S11 8NH Telephone/fax: 0114-268 7638 or 0845-108 0109 E-mail: [email protected]

England rescued Scotland from insolvency, you know. That's what led to the Act of Union.

Anyway, it was Sunday morning (not Saturday night) when BST began. So even the thread title's wrong.

No. If one does not use BBC services, one does not have to pay for a TV licence.

I've hunted it down. See s.137 of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70/section/137 It's headed 137. Power of local authorities to incur expenditure for certain purposes not otherwise authorised. (1) A local authority may, subject to the provisions of this section, incur expenditure which in their opinion is in the interests of, and will bring direct benefit to, their area or any part of it or all or some of its inhabitants, but a local authority shall not, by virtue of this subsection, incur any expenditure— (a) for a purpose for which they are, either unconditionally or subject to any limitation or to the satisfaction of any condition, authorised or required to make any payment by or by virtue of any other enactment; nor (b) unless the direct benefit accruing to their area or any part of it or to all or some of the inhabitants of their area will be commensurate with the expenditure to be incurred... (4) The expenditure of a local authority under this section in any financial year shall not exceed the amount produced by multiplying— (a) such sum as is for the time being appropriate to the authority under Schedule 12B to this Act, by (b) the relevant population of the authority’s area...

But Councils already have this power. A small amount (it used to be 1% or 2%, I think) of their total revenue could be freely spent on purposes for the benefit of their residents. As far as I know, this is still in force.

Let's look at ultra vires. Put simply, this phrase means 'beyond [one's legal] powers'. So it limits the power of an artificial legal entity (e.g. a company, local authority, etc. The entity's powers are set-out when it is incorporated. Any expenditure extending out from those powers is unlawful, for instance. So The Sheffield City Council cannot make bye-laws for Rotherham, nor London, nor anywhere other than Sheffield. That being so, why do the Council feel impelled to opine on foreign affairs? Even the devolved administrations in Scotland/Wales/NI (which have far greater powers than a Council) have territorial limits to legal competence!

Roads will be closed for several hours. Is there any good reason why other areas of Sheffield do not have the benefit of the two annual closures (= one cycling, one the half-marathon) and why it's always S11's?