"No tram-train, no development" - FOI documents expose the transport gap behind Sheffield's green belt plans
Freedom of Information documents reveal the promised Waverley railway station is years behind schedule - whilst the MP for Sheffield South East says that without proper transport, the green belt sites simply should not go ahead.
Read the article"We will not plough through farmland" - so why is Sheffield proposing 1,697 homes on S13 farmland?
The Prime Minister told Parliament the Government would not build on farmland. Sheffield City Council's Local Plan proposes exactly that - and S13 is the biggest target.
Read the articleAffordable Housing in the Wrong Place
The Council Leader says the Local Plan is "critical for providing new affordable homes" and that Green Belt sites will deliver "even more". But the Council's own evidence shows the plan directs the biggest affordable housing gains to lower-need areas - locking in the city's affordable housing inequalities for a generation.
Read the article10,504 council homes demolished. 339 rebuilt. Now they want our Green Belt.
Freedom of Information data reveals Sheffield City Council demolished over ten thousand council homes and replaced just 3%. The shortage of publicly owned housing was made worse by the Council's own demolition programme.
Read the articleSheffield Council Hires Top London King's Counsel to Evict Its Own Tenant Farmer
The Council owns the land. The Council allocated the site. The Council wants to bulldoze the farm. And when the farmers objected, the Council called in a King's Counsel to shut them down.
Read the articleSheffield doesn't need to destroy Green Belt - it needs to build smarter
Official government data shows Sheffield is one of England's least dense cities. Modest changes in housing density could meet targets without sacrificing a single hectare of Green Belt.
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