{"id":36936,"date":"2023-07-07T17:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T16:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36936"},"modified":"2023-07-07T17:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T16:27:57","slug":"sheffield-council-issues-apology-over-tree-felling-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36936","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield council issues apology over tree-felling scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-27725\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Tree-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"126\" \/>The city\u2019s new Labour leader has accepted that some of the 17,500 trees cut down were healthy.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 council accepts it repeatedly gave out misleading information about the 25-year contract\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield city council has issued a lengthy open apology for misleading the public, the media and the courts in a bitter dispute over its \u201cflawed\u201d programme to fell 17,500 street trees \u2013 many of which it now accepts were healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Hunt, the council\u2019s new Labour leader, said he accepted some people would \u201cnever forgive\u201d the local authority for the mistakes it made during the long-running saga, which led to elderly residents being arrested in dawn raids and one councillor facing prison\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The council accepts it repeatedly gave out misleading information about the 25-year contract it signed with the outsourcing firm Amey\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 The council accepts that it misled two high court judges via the council\u2019s five-year tree management strategy, which it knew was flawed. \u201cMisleading the courts is a serious matter and we will write to them to apologise,\u201d Hunt and Josephs said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/jun\/20\/sheffield-council-issues-apology-over-tree-felling-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s new Labour leader has accepted that some of the 17,500 trees cut down were healthy. image: for illustration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36937,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936\/revisions\/36937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}