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South Yorkshire residents call for more action against fly tipping

by joa19bw | Mar 18, 2021 | Environment, Health, News, Top stories, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture, Watch

Levels of fly tipping are rising at a worrying rate for South Yorkshire residents, despite Rotherham Council’s ‘Get Rid Reyt’ initiative. Items littered around Thorpe Hesley and Scholes have become an environmental health hazard to wildlife due to the amount of...

Sheffield City Council Receive Massive Investment to Protect Green Spaces

by joa18nw | Mar 11, 2021 | Environment, News

Sheffield will receive £180,000 to plant and protect trees as part of The Woodland Trust’s ‘Emergency Tree Fund’. Sheffield City Council will receive just over 6% of the £2.9 million fund that aims to help cash-strapped local authorities create more green spaces. Andy...

Sheffield Hallam Uni pioneer energy-generating playground

by joa18hwc | Mar 11, 2021 | Education, Environment, News

Sheffield Hallam University has designed and installed the first energy harnessing playground at a school in India. The hydroponic playground, which includes seesaws and growing frames, stimulates crop growth by using energy generated by children as they play. Heath...

Sheffield City Council urges government to help taxi drivers upgrade to greener vehicles

by joa18ep | Mar 4, 2021 | Environment, News

Sheffield is one of four local authorities calling on the government for additional funding and support to help taxi drivers upgrade to environmentally-friendly vehicles. The council has raised concerns in a letter written to the Department of Transport surrounding...

Possible plans to connect Kelham to Sheffield city centre

by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | Environment, News, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

Sheffield City Council have held a consultation in their hopes to connect Sheffield. The new route would link Neepsend – Kelham – City Centre The consultation, which ended on 3 March, was a new approach designed to transform travel throughout Sheffield, via...

South Yorkshire organisations ‘concerned’ about protest restrictions

by joa19kv | Mar 4, 2021 | Environment, News, Politics, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

Protest groups in South Yorkshire have expressed their worry over the government’s attitude towards protests after lockdown. An article for The Guardian disclosed last week that thanks to a Freedom of Information release, they had obtained proof that Priti Patel...
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