Oct 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
A time-sensitive update from It’s Our City! about the planned local governance changes at Clause 57 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill. It is very likely indeed that the Public Bill Committee examining the Bill line by line at...
Sep 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is the evidence that It’s Our City submitted to the Public Bill Committee on the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill. This focuses on the Clause 57 proposals to abolish the committee system, which will overturn Sheffield’s democratic...
Aug 3, 2025 | Events, Update
TAKE ACTION – SPEAK UP NOW! THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO OVERTURN THE RESULTS OF SHEFFIELD’S REFERENDUM. We are now (Autumn 2025) running a short letter-writing campaign. MPs are discussing the government’s Bill now, so please write now! Write to your MP!...
Jun 28, 2025 | Events, Update
This week the government has announced it intends to abolish the committee system for local councils in England. The government is set to force councils to operate under the top down, ‘strong leader’ (Leader and Cabinet) system. This system led to the disastrous...
Mar 25, 2023 | Events, Update
We published our statement on the response to the Sheffield Trees Inquiry Report. https://itsoursheffield.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FINAL-public-statement-street-tree-inquiry.pdf ...
Dec 13, 2022 | Events, Update
Question 1, related to SCC’s incorrect claim of ‘Co-Design’ I note the point at 8.3 of the minutes of the meeting of 30th June. I contacted both officers involved as soon as I saw the two reports, to identify my concerns and to ask the wording be...
Mar 23, 2022 | Events, Update
23RD MARCH 2022 EXTRAORDINARY COUNCIL MEETING Today Sheffield City Council is meeting to vote on its design for the new modern committee system. They are doing the basic technical shift – a glacial inching forward, and it is a better, more basically democratic...
Jan 31, 2022 | Events, Update
The Council has published its design for the new committee system. Unfortunately, the design seems to have ignored quite a lot of the work done by, and the evidence submitted to, the Governance Committee over the last few months. The report announcing the design was...
Nov 21, 2021 | Events, Update
We published our final comments on the “Governance Principles” created by Sheffield Council. Our detailed comments and criticisms are based on the 20,000 face-to-face conversations about governance that our volunteers had with Sheffield citizens....
Aug 5, 2021 | Events, Update
It’s Our City! is holding our Annual General Meeting, online, from 7pm to 8pm on 11th August 2021.If you have previously signed up as a formal member of It’s Our City!, you should have already received an email from us about the AGM. Although our AGM is...
