Sheffield To Ban Adverts For Unhealthy Or Polluting Products

[hackey lad 4,009]

2 minutes ago, RollingJ said:

I shall - but unfortunately there are too many in this region that don't vote with their brains.

[ECCOnoob 1,054]

37 minutes ago, SheffieldForum said:

This is a practical step.

 

It isn't mutually exclusive with traffic lights.

 

There are many steps to take to combat the climate emergency, this is but a very small one of them.

 

 

It is, but I am more surprised that such falls under a local authority's remit and more importantly out of their budget.

 

Seems quite bizarre that at a time when some local authorities are going completely bankrupt and others sre barely able to provide the minimal of services, money is being spent in such way.

[ECCOnoob 1,054]

6 minutes ago, RollingJ said:

I shall - but unfortunately there are too many in this region that don't vote with their brain

Very true. Far too many blindly following a colour or picking who their dad picked or their granddad did or their great granddad did.  .

[Resident 1,205]

4 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said:

Very true. Far too many blindly following a colour or picking who their dad picked or their granddad did or their great granddad did.  .

Or blindly voting how their community leaders tell them to.. 

[ads36 222]

1 hour ago, The_DADDY said:

Reducing the amount of traffic lights so traffic can flow and isn't Stop Start Stop Start all day long would be a good start in my opinion. 

how would junctions work?

 

how would people cross busy roads?

 

35 minutes ago, The_DADDY said:

Still, on the bright side at least we managed to fix the hole in the ozone layer🤣

yes we did, by banning CFC's...

[The_DADDY 3,495]

2 minutes ago, ads36 said:

how would junctions work?

 

how would people cross busy roads?

 

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It's not the fact we have traffic lights that's the issue. It's the amount. 

[SheffieldForum 978]

1 minute ago, The_DADDY said:

It's not the fact we have traffic lights that's the issue. It's the amount. 

It could be argued that it is the amount of cars on roads that's the actual issue.

 

 

[sheffbag 230]

Does this mean SCC wont be doing any promotion for the following in 2024?

The World Snooker Championships sponsored by Cazoo so would be promoting petrol diesel and hybrid cars which is against their new policy?

Tramlines as their promotional materials advertise Alcohol (Thatchers and Brewdog) which is against their new policy

Sheffield Grand Prix part sponsored by McClaren (Cars) and Brown Bar (Alcohol) which is against their new policy

Sheffield by the Seaside - Has stalls promoting unhealthy food which is against their new policy

 

[SheffieldForum 978]

1 minute ago, sheffbag said:

Does this mean SCC wont be doing any promotion for the following in 2024?

The World Snooker Championships sponsored by Cazoo so would be promoting petrol diesel and hybrid cars which is against their new policy?

Tramlines as their promotional materials advertise Alcohol (Thatchers and Brewdog) which is against their new policy

Sheffield Grand Prix part sponsored by McClaren (Cars) and Brown Bar (Alcohol) which is against their new policy

Sheffield by the Seaside - Has stalls promoting unhealthy food which is against their new policy

 

None of those are directly Sheffield City Council advertising or sponsorships, they are all private enterprises and don't come under the new policy.

 

Nice try though!

 

 

[The_DADDY 3,495]

8 minutes ago, SheffieldForum said:

It could be argued that it is the amount of cars on roads that's the actual issue.

 

 

Yes it could. 

However slowing this traffic down unnecessarily, making it stop and start stop start, 20mph speed limits etc surely adds to the problem that scc is apparently trying to combat? 

 

[Resident 1,205]

13 minutes ago, ads36 said:

how would junctions work?

 

how would people cross busy roads?

I do a lot of driving for work in and around Sheffield. 

 

The problem with the lights is that they aren't sequenced in a sensible manner. 

 

[sheffbag 230]

16 minutes ago, SheffieldForum said:

None of those are directly Sheffield City Council advertising or sponsorships, they are all private enterprises and don't come under the new policy.

 

Nice try though!

 

 

From the councils policy

2.1 Advertising, for the purposes of this policy, is defined as a transaction between the Council and an external organisation in which the organisation can display informative and/or persuasive content about its products, services, causes or ideas in/on Council assets in exchange for a previously agreed financial sum.

 

Under the new policy if the organisations/private enterprises wish to advertise on SCC facilities then it must meet the policy guidelines as laid out.

All of the events i listed would fail if the organisors approached the council to advertise on their billboards.

The Sheffield Grand Prix is co sponsored by SCC so is not a private enterprise

With regard to The Snooker, Sheffield by the Seaside and Tramlines then i would suggest clause 2.1.1 comes into effect

b) those channels where the Council acts as landlord or operator, but which may be managed for the Council under transparent and tendered agreements. 

The council is the landlord for the venues are they not? So the enterprises ar eadvertising on council land and would come under the same terms

 

Try not to be sound too condescending with the "nice try though". You are representing Sheffield Forum. Just an observation