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Football facilities in Darnall have been saved from the threat of closure, as the council have secured a new national operator, Leisure United, who will take over in February.The five-a-side football pitches and pavilion at Woodbourn Road in Darnall, Sheffield are currently run by Powerleague, who r...Read more »
Purple Flag, first given to Sheffield in 2012, is a town and city centre award which aims to raise the standard and broaden the appeal of town and city centres between 6pm – 6am.Sheffield was the first city in Yorkshire to receive the Purple Flag award and since then, the council has worked with par...Read more »
One of the UK’s largest parkruns broke its attendance record on Saturday when 868 people ran three miles round Endcliffe Park.“We’re really excited to have smashed our attendance record of 804, set back in April 2018,” said Ben Heller of Sheffield Hallam University, one of the run directors at Sheff...Read more »
Sheffield’s new 15-year trees and woodlands strategy was approved last November, and the council committed to planting an additional 100,000 trees within the first ten years, adding to the city’s impressive seven trees per person.Two classes of year three children from Pipworth Community Primary Sch...Read more »
With experts predicting the steepest decline in December’s high street footfall since the recession in 2010, Sheffield has bucked the national trend with an increase in December’s city centre shoppersThe increase in footfall spread across all areas of the city centre with Fargate up three per cent, ...Read more »
Graves Health & Sports Centre, managed by Places Leisure on behalf of Sheffield City Council, was nominated for the awards due to its achievements in last few years developing tennis in Sheffield and Yorkshire.In two and a half years the centre has seen incredible growth in tennis, with particip...Read more »
Sheffield is one of the greenest and most wooded cities in Europe and the greenest city in the UK. The city is proud of its rich variety of urban parks, woodland, countryside and other green spaces which are extremely popular destinations, attracting more than 25 million visits each year.Sheffield’s...Read more »
Councillor Lewis Dagnall, Cabinet Member for Environment and Streetscene, said:"In this, the week of Remembrance Day, I am confirming that we have developed a plan to retain 32 of the 35 war memorial trees that were originally earmarked for replacement. The three that will still be replaced, on West...Read more »
The first of 100 war memorial trees has been planted in Weston Park as part of the city’s commemoration of the centenary of First World War.The remainder of the first phase of plantings will see one large English oak tree established in 31 city and district parks, and avenues of smaller lime trees p...Read more »
Parson Cross, which has recently featured in the hit West End/Sheffield production Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and is one of the city’s proudest areas, is now home to some stunning gate posts made by a local sculptor with help from schoolchildren.Sheffield Housing Company (SHC) is Sheffield City...Read more »