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...
May 19, 2021 | Blog, Council Governance Model Referendum
(A personal view from Ruth Hubbard) Sheffield voters delivered a triple whammy on 6th May. The Leader lost his ward, our council emerged under no overall control (NOC) and, resoundingly, citizens and communities won our change of governance referendum. Not...
May 13, 2021 | Campaigns, Council Governance Model Referendum, Update
Our Co chair, Anne Barr’s prepared victory speech Due to Covid restrictions only the returning officer was allowed on the platform so it wasn’t used but she would still like the messages contained to be heard. For those who don’t know me, I’m Anne Barr,...
May 10, 2021 | Council Governance Model Referendum, Press-releases
Monday 10th May 2021This is a great day for Sheffield, for citizens and communities across our city, and for our shared future. Sheffield citizens have used their community rights to vote resoundingly for change to the way our council works and the introduction of a...
