Newfield Green library could be placed under threat following a Council review of libraries. Labour councillors, who control Sheffield City Council and announced the review, stated that they could not rule out the option of closures. The review, which is currently out to consultation, has been criticised by local Liberal Democrats. Richard Shaw, local Liberal […]

Labour’s Cabinet Member for Waste on Sheffield City Council has been forced into a public apology by local Lib Dems after a string of embarrassing mistakes in waste management. Changes to Sheffield’s bin collections, including the introduction of fortnightly bin collections, have seen hundreds of complaints a day. Following the change to fortnightly bin collections, […]

Is there no end to the Council’s mishandling over waste collections and recycling? Despite petitions by residents and alternative proposals by opposition Liberal Democrat councillors, Labour is pursuing a policy of cutting black bin collections to every two weeks and has scrapped free green bin collections, introducing a paid for service where residents pay £57.60 […]

Earlier this year, the Labour administration of Sheffield City Council cut funding to Community Assemblies across the city by up to 30%, with our area’s South Community Assembly receiving a 14% cut. However, not everyone was so unlucky – the all-Labour-councillor North East Community Assembly received a 15% increase! Instead of cutting funding as equally […]

Labour took control of Sheffield City Council in May 2011 and since then have squandered residents’ money, funding their own priorities over those of local people. £2.2m on revamping meeting rooms Sheffield Town Hall; £400,000 to ‘communicate’ their plan to end weekly bin collections; £400,000 to fund full time Trade Union officials. In addition to […]

Sheffield Liberal Democrats launched their 2012 local election manifesto today at Park Hill flats, into which Labour councillors have sunk £2.5m of taxpayer funds at the expense of local services. The manifesto includes commitments to restoring the free green waste recycling service, weekly general waste collections, restore community funding, establishing a Sheffield Investment Pot to […]

I arrived home on Monday to find a letter from local refuse collectors Veolia offering to continue to empty my green garden waste wheelie bin every two weeks between April and December for the not inconsiderable sum of £57.60. This comes after the previously free service was needlessly axed (along with the weekly black bin […]

Earlier this year Clive Betts MP (Sheffield South East) tabled an amendment to legislation in Parliament which would have made students liable for Council Tax and student landlords liable to pay business rates. This would have seen student households hit with an annual bill of at least £988.55. Last Monday the Coalition Government issued an […]

Since coming to power last May the Labour Party have consistently wasted taxpayer money on their changes to Sheffield residents’ bin collections: £21,000 on a letter asking residents how to save money. Up to £1,000,000 on contract change fees and making 40 people redundant. £4,000,000 on making the public ‘understand’ that their bins will be […]

Labour Party councillors on Sheffield City Council have decided to axe weekly black bin collections and end green bin collections,  possibly replacing green bin collections with a paid for service. They are also planning to reduce the number of blue bins and tubs – residents currently have a blue wheelie bin and a blue tub […]