Category: Campaigns
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Oughtigate Letter and Timeline
To the Editor Look Local“Oughtigate” – the Latest After over three years of polite campaigning, local people in Oughtibridge and Wharncliffe Side, supported by the Upper Don Trail Trust, are still waiting for action to get a single gate to be opened allowing safe access to what is already supposed to be a public access…
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Sign the ePetition now to rescue Stocksbridge regeneration projects including the Upper Don Trail
The following letter appeared in Look Local, the online weekly paper serving the Upper Don valley. It is signed by a range of local people many with a long track record of public service. Please read it and then go to the Sheffield City Council website to sign the ePetition HERE and bring some transparency,…
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Upper Don Trail Trust statement on Stocksbridge consultation event
The Upper Don Trail Trust (UDTT) has become aware that Stocksbridge Town Deal is holding a drop-in consultation event next week to seek people’s views on its much-reduced trails project. The consultation about “proposed investment at Underbank reservoir” follows the Town Deal board’s decision to abandon the much more ambitious trails project that was…
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It’s about Levelling Up Sheffield
In weather far more favourable than the post Eunice conditions this weekend, we were delighted to take the Sheffield writer David Bocking on a tour of the Upper Don. Bathed in glorious sunshine (remember that), we took Bocking by bike to Oughtibridge, integral to our 22km vision for an off road trail from Sheffield to…
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Upper Don Trail receives strong support in Parliament
The Upper Don Trail Trust received strong support from a local Labour MP and a Government minister in a Parliamentary debate today. The Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough MP Gill Furniss secured a Westminster Hall debate about the Trail and how it and other similar trails could be funded. She told the Nature Recovery Minister Rebecca…
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Penistone Road retail centre – a failure of planning policy
Joint statement from the Upper Don Trail Trust and Cycle Sheffield This week, Sheffield City Council’s Planning and Highways Committee approved a new retail centre opposite the Hillsborough football ground on Penistone Road. Developers now have planning permission for retail outlets including a supermarket, gym, drive-thru restaurants and a builders merchants. They will build them…
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Upper Don Trail Trust and Cycle Sheffield press for improved active travel routes near Hillsborough
The Upper Don Trail Trust and Cycle Sheffield have joined forces to press for radically improved active travel routes near Hillsborough football ground. We’re urging Sheffield City Council planners to insist on segregated cycleways and safer road crossings as part of a new retail development. Developers Jaguar Estates have submitted revised plans for a retail…
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Trust warns that Upper Don Trail may be at risk as house builders seek to cut costs in Deepcar
The Upper Don Trail Trust has objected strongly to proposals by a national house builder to scale down plans for the new riverside active travel route at Deepcar. House building giant Bloor Homes is building over 420 new homes on the previously derelict old Steins brickworks site alongside the River Don. Bloor have so far…