{"id":69015,"date":"2026-03-13T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=69015"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:43:41","slug":"green-belt-campaign-group-warns-council-we-are-not-going-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/green-belt-campaign-group-warns-council-we-are-not-going-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Green belt campaign group warns council: &#8216;We are not going away&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The campaign group &#8216;Save Sheffield Green Belt&#8217; has delivered a progress report at a meeting in Ecclesfield School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents of villages including Chapeltown, Grenoside and Ecclesfield have been in a battle with Sheffield City Council over the attempted release of Green Belt land in order to meet national housing targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans have been discussed which would see Green Belt land in S35 and S13 released under \u2018exceptional circumstances.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents believe this is a powerful precedent which would set future release.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The council insists it is using a \u2018brownfield first\u2019 approach, but campaigners claim there has not been a call for sites since 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jo Tunsall, the group&#8217;s secretary, said: \u201cWe still have a voice and we are not going away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Campaign group \u2018Save Sheffield Green Belt\u2019 tells council \u201cwe are not going away\u201d\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3DyeZhzx3OA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents met for a progress report as they continue to oppose development in some areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":857,"featured_media":69236,"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":[415,21,1,103],"tags":[1718,260,1835,38,141],"class_list":["post-69015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news","category-uncategorised","category-watch","tag-development","tag-environment","tag-greenbelt","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-city-council"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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