Our five Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC), have been extended, with all sites now open from 9.30am to 5.30pm every day until Thursday 30 September.
Sites accept a wide range of items household waste for recycling, including textiles, glass bottles and jars, wood, scrap metal, batteries, garden waste, electrical appliances and even engine and cooking oil.
More information about what these sites can accept is available at Veolia Sheffield.
With heavy rain forecast today and into tomorrow, the council is working with its partners to ensure the city is prepared.
Streets Ahead, the council’s highway contractor, is prioritising gully cleaning around known flooding hotspots and operatives are ready to respond swiftly to any reports of localised flooding.
With rain expected to continue until Thursday 21st, we are montoring river levels closely.
We would advise people to travel only where absolutely necessary and only for essential reasons, in line with current Covid restrictions. Please take extra care whilst driving and monitor the weather over the next few days.
All Covid vaccination and testing centres remain open currently and getting to your appointment is classed as essential travel. We are advising people to still attend unless it it unsafe for you to travel. We will provide further updates on vaccination centres throughout the day.
Flood defence schemes are in place in key locations across the city and we will continue to work with the Environmental Agency as the situation progresses.
Issues on the roads should be reported to the council’s Streets Ahead team on 0114 273 4567. We will have numerous teams responding to reports of flooding and wet spots across the city.
For the latest flooding updates visit: https://www.gov.uk/check-flood-risk
For the latest weather updates for Sheffield visit: https://bit.ly/2Q1YO0y
For the latest travel updates follow Travel South Yorkshire on Twitter at @TSYalerts
Keep informed with any issues on the roads on Twitter at @sccstreetsahead
The Taste of Kelham Island Tour is the ultimate long lunch. Take a culinary journey visiting a range of independent eating establishments and enjoy generous samples at each stop. There are 6 steps in total with a selection of different cuisines. You will also hear interesting facts about this historic district of Sheffield (the island dates back to the 12th Century).
Here’s an update on a few services and how they operate during the colder months, and some advice on keeping healthy and well in the winter.
Keep a look out for these alerts and please do share them. For more information visit: www.sheffield.gov.uk/winterinfo
To help make sure you’re prepared for winter this year, we’ve put some information together about our services and how you can stay healthy and well during the colder months.
Sometimes bad weather disrupts some of our services, so we want to keep you up to date on what is happening on the roads, in schools and with your bin collections. We’ve also got some advice about protecting your home during freezing temperatures, how to support people sleeping rough and keeping yourself healthy and well.
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Our Parks and Countryside teams will be on site at Ponderosa Park this week, working to reinstate the area after it was affected by the severe weather conditions at the weekend.
Councillor Mary Lea, Cabinet Member for Culture, Parks and Leisure at Sheffield City Council said:
“Due to severe weather conditions last weekend, we unfortunately had to take the decision to cancel the second the day of Bass in the Park as it became unsafe for visitors.
“We are now working with the event organisers to reinstate Ponderosa Park following the heavy rain that took place there. “We would like to thank residents for their patience whilst we work hard to get the park back to looking its best.”
The plea comes from Sheffield City Council’s Highways Maintenance contactor, Amey, following a survey into road workers safety, where Sheffield scored just above the national average.
However, despite achieving an above average score for overall road worker safety, 62% of Sheffielders have admitted to not being as safety conscious as they should be when negotiating roadworks – compared to a 59% UK average.
The research, which was carried out on behalf of Amey, reveals a majority of UK road users admit to driving in ways that put themselves, workers and other road users at risk of injury or even, death.
Melissa Wise, Operations Director at Streets Ahead said:
“Whilst the figures for Sheffield are just above the national average, there’s still a long way to go to ensure that our workers feel completely safe when carrying out their job on the city’s roads.
“Our programme of works is vast and we’re often working across multiple locations throughout Sheffield at one time. What’s more, we regularly carry out work during night time hours to avoid further disruption during peak travel times. However, this poses its own challenges for our teams, particularly during the winter when it’s darker and weather conditions are more unpredictable.
“The majority of people do drive responsibly but there has been a number of incidents where restrictions or diversions have been ignored, which is not acceptable or safe.
“We know diversions and disruption can cause frustration for drivers, but it’s sometimes essential for us to close roads and that’s usually when we see a rise in incidents. Our workers are there to do their job and it’s not right for them to face fear of injury whilst on site.”
Recently, in Sheffield, where a road closure was in place during resurfacing works, a car attempted to drive through the closure and, despite attempts by on-site workers to inform the driver of the closure, the driver continued, parking up further down the street only to obstruct ongoing work.
Unfortunately, in addition to dangerous driving, Streets Ahead employees have also experienced offensive behaviour, with many having suffered physical and verbal abuse whilst doing their jobs on the streets of Sheffield.
“We’ve had numerous incidents involving threats of physical violence and actual physical violence to our workforce and our sub-contractors. We’ve also had operatives who have been clipped by cars as they’ve sped past,” added Melissa.
“With the number of vehicles on our roads continuing to rise each year, and with darker nights and wintry conditions on the horizon, we want to remind Sheffield drivers to take extra care when travelling around roadworks and always put safety first.”
The findings echo recent research undertaken by Highways England, which revealed a catalogue of serious incidents and near misses across the country, ranging from motorists driving into coned-off areas, to physical and verbal abuse of workers.
As part of the city-wide highways maintenance Streets Ahead contract, roads and pavements across Sheffield are being upgraded and maintained by Amey until 2037, creating a much improved infrastructure for years to come.
To find out more about the Streets Ahead programme of works visit: www.sheffield.gov.uk/streetsahead
Be ready for winter in good time this year by visiting www.sheffield.gov.uk/winter to find out more about our service.
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