Council tree felling...

[Guest makapaka]

You do all realise that it is only a small majority of folk that have an interest in saving the trees. Many people are commenting on the police as if it is the next Orgreave or hills borough when in fact it makes a few lines in the local paper and there are very few comments made on the YouTube clips.

It’s only big on S F.

The rest of sheffield is just getting on with living.

 

Someone will quote you the New York Times in a bit. Which was an upload to their website by a british journalist.

 

Like the New Yorkers are all sat having their breakfast talking about a tree replacement programme in Sheffield.......

[Naive 10]

Of course, this is only news in Sheffield.

 

New Yorkers have other stuff to worry about.

 

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/world/europe/uk-sheffield-trees.html?referer=https://www.google.co.uk/

 

Happy to help:)

 

I’ll link to the myriad of other national and international news sources carrying the story some other time. This ridiculous collusion between a Labour council, a multinational and our police is making the city a laughing stock.

Edited March 23, 2018 by Naive

[Guest makapaka]

Of course, this is only news in Sheffield.

 

New Yorkers have other stuff to worry about.

 

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/world/europe/uk-sheffield-trees.html?referer=https://www.google.co.uk/

 

Happy to help:)

 

I’ll link to the myriad of other national and international news sources carrying the story some other time. This ridiculous collusion between a Labour council, a multinational and our police is making the city a laughing stock.

 

Ha - see my previous post.

[Naive 10]

Ha - see my previous post.

 

Only if you read mine properly.

 

It would make a change for you to do such a thing:rolleyes:

[Guest makapaka]

Of course, this is only news in Sheffield.

 

New Yorkers have other stuff to worry about.

 

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/world/europe/uk-sheffield-trees.html?referer=https://www.google.co.uk/

 

Happy to help:)

 

I’ll link to the myriad of other national and international news sources carrying the story some other time. This ridiculous collusion between a Labour council, a multinational and our police is making the city a laughing stock.

 

Only if you read mine properly.

 

It would make a change for you to do such a thing:rolleyes:

 

I read it. Was just surprised you still think that is a barometer of the situation.

 

It’s not made the huffington post as well has it :hihi:

[Naive 10]

I read it. Was just surprised you still think that is a barometer of the situation.

 

It’s not made the huffington post as well has it :hihi:

 

You didn’t read it very well then. No surprise there though

 

It has made every media outlet in the land. You can mock the Huff Post and Buzzfeed all you like. Maybe nip and have a chat with Theresa May about what she thinks of online media:cool:

Edited March 23, 2018 by Naive

[monkey104 10]

Of course, this is only news in Sheffield.

 

New Yorkers have other stuff to worry about.

 

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/world/europe/uk-sheffield-trees.html?referer=https://www.google.co.uk/

 

Happy to help:)

 

I’ll link to the myriad of other national and international news sources carrying the story some other time. This ridiculous collusion between a Labour council, a multinational and our police is making the city a laughing stock.

 

 

 

No it’s not. Apart from a few folk in Sheffield no one else gives a stuff! Why should they?

And the ny times article is a rehash from the Sheffield star.

Having said that, it has made it in to the new civil engineer magazine.

Edited March 23, 2018 by monkey104

[Phanerothyme 12]

This story has been in the Times and Telegraph printed editions.

 

It's been covered by most online news outlets.

 

The policy has been condemned by every organisation with an interest or expertise to offer, plus dozens of individual leading authorities in arboriculture, urban planning, ecology, ornithology, conservation and architecture.

 

Tree protestors have raised in excess of £50K for legal costs and defence in the last 2 years - actually putting their money where their mouth is. (or plastic trumpet).

 

People feel strongly about trees for a lot of different reasons, but if the council wants to mess with them, it has to realise that it has a fight on its hands.

 

People from Sheffield are renowned for their distaste for authority and the powers that be.

 

It's part of the reason I like it here so much, and also why I'm helping out with the campaign to #saveshefftrees

 

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No it’s not. Apart from a few folk in Sheffield no one else gives a stuff! Why should they?

And the ny times article is a rehash from the Sheffield star.

Having said that, it has made it in to the new civil engineer magazine.

 

in fact, just the other day, the Sunday Times took Sheffield off its "most desireable places to live" because of the "bitter dispute over the felling of street trees".

 

If you think this isn't a national story (albeit a small one), you're wrong. You would have been right a year ago, but not today.

 

Given there are 20 odd years left on Amey's contract, and they're felling one tree every day, and 6000 trees are already felled, they should hit the target of felling half of Sheffield's street trees by 2040.

 

Meanwhile, many of the roads and pavement they have laid are already totally screwed. Their work is poor, their price is bad, and their strategy makes them look like a bunch of clowns. SCC just bleats pathetic soundbites in defence of Amey, when it's obvious to even a child that this PFI is basically a total scam.

[barleycorn 10]

I've seen the footage. I'm broadly in favour of lot of the tree protestors aim - but to be honest she asked for it.

 

The police & security seem to have generally well behaved and patient. There's a lot of middle class folk who've never been told no before. God knows who they'd have coped with "old fashioned" policing

Yeah because blowing a toy plastic trumpet is a criminal offence..

 

 

[Eccy Beach 11]

The Rotherham scandal is recent. So ok one, with current officers involved in the scandal.

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/dozens-of-police-officers-under-investigation-over-child-sex-abuse-scandal-in-rotherham-1-8713757

 

More recent, Jay Report covers 1997-2013, so some staff will have moved on and even if every officer in Rotherham was corrupt/inept that would still only be one of four districts.

[hicksy3 10]

Back to trees. Lunchtime errands took me down Meadow Bank Avenue in Nether Edge today. It is lined by mature lime trees, which have been managed by regular pollarding. This keeps them at an appropriate size for street trees. A lesson in street trees management. This is a private road, so possibly residents pay for upkeep themselves, I don't know.

Does the contract include maintenance of replacement trees into the future? Also where exactly are the replacement trees? Finally, is it possible for SCC to add a supplement to council tax for trees maintenance on roads where there are trees?

 

 

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[Eccy Beach 11]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-43492887

 

Gove sticking oar in again. Whatever side of argument you're on his intervention is hardly helpful.

 

I'd love to know what powers he thinks he's going to use to stop this.