{"id":55904,"date":"2024-02-22T14:53:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=55904"},"modified":"2024-02-22T14:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:53:40","slug":"sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The new measures come  as a result of the Grenfell Tower disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ShefNews spoke to Green Party Councillor Douglas Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/18m-to-go-towards-fire-safety-in-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/\" title=\"\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-1024x710.jpg\" alt=\"tower block\" class=\"wp-image-55865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-980x680.jpg 980w, https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-480x333.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">tower block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new measures come as a result of the Grenfell Tower disaster. ShefNews spoke to Green Party Councillor Douglas Johnson. Read here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield. - ShefNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield. - ShefNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The new measures come as a result of the Grenfell Tower disaster. ShefNews spoke to Green Party Councillor Douglas Johnson. Read here.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ShefNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-22T14:53:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-22T14:53:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-1024x710.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Laurel Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Laurel Beach\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Laurel Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/6f32d072b1302f4ac4047e3a70c09a7c\"},\"headline\":\"Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield.\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-22T14:53:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-22T14:53:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/\"},\"wordCount\":41,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-1024x710.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Live Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/\",\"name\":\"Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield. - ShefNews\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-1024x710.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-22T14:53:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-22T14:53:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/6f32d072b1302f4ac4047e3a70c09a7c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1776,\"caption\":\"tower block\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"ShefNews\",\"description\":\"Bringing you all the news from across Sheffield\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/6f32d072b1302f4ac4047e3a70c09a7c\",\"name\":\"Laurel Beach\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/19d213d8f4b8c80708bc97d33a9feccfd679ea4114505fac75a16fad482edc6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/19d213d8f4b8c80708bc97d33a9feccfd679ea4114505fac75a16fad482edc6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Laurel Beach\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/joa22lb\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield. - ShefNews","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield. - ShefNews","og_description":"The new measures come as a result of the Grenfell Tower disaster. ShefNews spoke to Green Party Councillor Douglas Johnson. Read here.","og_url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/","og_site_name":"ShefNews","article_published_time":"2024-02-22T14:53:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-02-22T14:53:40+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-1024x710.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Laurel Beach","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Laurel Beach"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/"},"author":{"name":"Laurel Beach","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/6f32d072b1302f4ac4047e3a70c09a7c"},"headline":"Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield.","datePublished":"2024-02-22T14:53:39+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-22T14:53:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/"},"wordCount":41,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-1024x710.jpg","articleSection":["Live Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/","url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/","name":"Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield. - ShefNews","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-1024x710.jpg","datePublished":"2024-02-22T14:53:39+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-22T14:53:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/6f32d072b1302f4ac4047e3a70c09a7c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-block-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1776,"caption":"tower block"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/sheffield-councillors-agreed-to-spend-more-than-18m-on-improving-fire-safety-in-20-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sheffield councillors agreed to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across Sheffield."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/","name":"ShefNews","description":"Bringing you all the news from across Sheffield","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/6f32d072b1302f4ac4047e3a70c09a7c","name":"Laurel Beach","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/19d213d8f4b8c80708bc97d33a9feccfd679ea4114505fac75a16fad482edc6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/19d213d8f4b8c80708bc97d33a9feccfd679ea4114505fac75a16fad482edc6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Laurel Beach"},"url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/joa22lb\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55911,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55904\/revisions\/55911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}