The ruling Labour group have decided a pot of £1.1m funding will go towards the most deprived areas of the city, after a long row about how it should be spent.
A Yorkshire council chief executive has criticised the “unholy mess” engulfing the Government’s flagship universal credit scheme as she said it had led to soaring rates of food bank use and personal debt in her own borough.
A councillor for Graves Park has accused the Sheffield Bus partnership of ‘making excuses’ as it has claimed in a report that falling passenger numbers are down to changes in: employment patterns, reduced need to travel and an increase in online shopping.
The Government may be resisting proposals for a One Yorkshire devolution deal because it “is frightened of Yorkshire and the power it would then have”, a peer suggested today.
The Sheffield Green party are celebrating their victory over Labour-run Sheffield City Council, as their 10-year-long push for changes to ‘Heart of the city 2’ have been accepted.
Councillors have granted permission for a new link road to a Doncaster recycling site to alleviate HGV traffic travelling through a residential estate.
Campaigners have called on Sheffield City Council to ‘come clean’ about plans to combine two night care services into one, saying it will negatively affect patients and staff.
