Round at Bill's Mother's - April 2024
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Update 8 April: (more on many of these stories in the longer post for full members below).
The first tree in the new Banner Cross boulevard (as it’s been named by some) should be planted this week, with a celebration planned for Saturday 20th April. Subject to local consultations, the rest of the trees should go in during the next planting season. Nicola Gilbert, the local tree warden who was handed the tree by Amey for her tireless voluntary work, says anyone is welcome to join in from 9.30. All local businesses (except possibly one) seem delighted about the trees so may be joining in. (More below).
15 Minute Cities are in the news again: Paris urban planner Carlos Moreno has a new book out on the subject, and claims he invented the notion, although crediting earlier work in the 1960s by Jane Jacobs and others. Our post on the subject of a year ago is here, and I helped the Sheffield Tribune with this post too.
If you’d like to know know more about one of our more mysterious life forms, contributor and reader Chris Kelly tells me of a special screening of the award winning ‘Fungi:Web Of Life’ movie on April 25th.
The paths of Wyming Brook will finally reopen on Saturday 13th April, after months of closure following a government order to remove larch trees from the site (due to an outbreak of the virulent fungal disease Phytophthora ramorum). Visitors will find fewer living fir trees on site, but SRWT have ring barked many trees rather than clearing them off site, which will alter the look of Wyming Brook, but create habitats for birds, insects and fungi, they told me. I hope to have more on this soon.
A mad plan to dig up a walking and cycling route to favour delivery lorries for a new supermarket off Penistone Road has now been questioned by the South Yorkshire Combined Authority, and Active Travel England. CycleSheffield’s post about this is here.
The Supertram is in public control. Will the 30 year old campaign to grant the obvious step to allow bikes to be carried on the city’s urban tram system finally be granted, like so many other cities across the progressive world? Consultation to give your views is here.
It’s confirmed that the Shire Brook Valley will receive £1.3 million for wildlife and wetland work, as reported here in January. See last week’s Sunday edition, & I’ll have a longer post about this soon.
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