Sheffield has the third-highest sell-off rate of right-to-buy council houses while just 11 per cent of sold homes have been replaced, new figures reveal. Source: Sheffield Council has not replaced 89 per cent of right-to-buy homes sold – The Star

Vital bus services serving our area could be axed under new plans set out by Sheffield Bus Partnership – a body made up of the bus companies and members of the Labour controlled South Yorkshire Councils. Under the plans, Service 19 would be cut from a half-hourly service to an hourly service. The 20A, which currently runs every […]

As the fate of historic Cobnar Cottage in Graves Park hangs in the balance, local campaigners are issuing a ‘call to arms’ in what could be the biggest battle yet over the cottage’s future. Sheffield’s Labour Cabinet gave the go-ahead in March to apply to the Charity Commission with a scheme that would see the […]

Steve Ayris and the Lib Dems have stepped up the campaign to protect Graves Park. Steve and fellow Lib Dem councillors Ian Auckland and Denise Reaney have been fighting to protect the park for over a decade – and are now calling on the council to halt any further plans to sell off land, and for overgrown areas to be returned to parkland. Cllr Steve Ayris said The council […]

Watch Nick Clegg deliver his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference 2014.

ORIGINALLY POSTED BY THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ON 05 OCTOBER, 2014 Local authorities will play a greater role in helping people get back to work, under Liberal Democrat plans passed at conference today. The Work programme has already helped 296,000 people find lasting work. But given the variation in labour markets across the country Liberal Democrats want to go […]

ORIGINALLY POSTED BY THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ON 05 OCTOBER, 2010 Liberal Democrats have long campaigned to reform the Housing Revenue Account subsidy and replace it with a fairer system. We’ve now been able to deliver on that pledge in government. The unpopular “Tenant Tax” will be scrapped, with local authorities being allowed to keep all council house […]

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Your local Lib Dem team and I have demanded answers from Labour’s Town Hall bosses about the road resurfacing work in Woodseats. Thanks to cash secured by Liberal Democrats in Government, our roads are being resurfaced at long last. That’s great news. But the work – managed by the Labour Council – has brought unnecessary stress, inconvenience, chaos […]

via Sheffield Lib Dems on April 25, 2014 in News Sheffield Liberal Democrats have launched their manifesto for the 2014 local elections with a campaign to save sixteen threatened libraries. Under plans agreed by Labour-run Sheffield City Council as many as sixteen community libraries could close across the city. The proposals have proved controversial for Labour leaders of the Council […]