Round at Bill's Mother's - Feb / Early March 2024

The It's Looking A Bit Black Over Bill's Mother's relaxed rolling news service, and full listings. Full post for full members.

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Hedge in the Shire Brook Valley

15 March Updates

• It’s confirmed that the Shire Brook Valley will receive £1.3 million for wildlife and wetland work, as reported here a few weeks ago. Here’s the press release - I’ll have a longer feature on this soon.

• The Supertram comes into public control next week. Will the generations-old campaign to grant the obvious step for the public of Sheffield (the hilly eastern parts in particular) 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?

• The crazy idea to dig up a walking and cycling route to favour delivery lorries in a proposal for a new supermarket off Penistone Road has now been questioned by the South Yorkshire Combined Authority, and Active Travel England. I’ll be finding out more.

• Apologies - for family reasons I have not had time to put in the days needed for the full March edition as yet, although you’ll see the listings are growing. In the next week or so, once we’ve reached our magic sustainable social enterprise target of full paying members, I aim to revisit our paid publications so they work for all readers. Please bear with me. It’s £3.67 a month if you go annual.

Brief News: (full post for full members below).

• The new parkrun at Parkwood Springs is set to start in early summer, with a fundraiser to help towards start up costs. I now hear a local business whose world famous product was first brewed under the Shirecliffe hillside may be getting involved. More in the full post below.

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In the full post:

• Parkwood Springs parkrun - what’s new.

• Bolehill Wood saved.

• What’s an Active Environment?

• Hopes / Fears sculpture, and Why Are / Aren’t You Mountain Biking?

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