Councillor Ben Miskell

Today we stand with our Jewish communities in Sheffield and across the country, and utterly condemn the terrorism we saw in Manchester on the holiest Jewish day of Yom Kippur.

Sheffield throws open its doors for Heritage Open Days 2025 🏛️✨
From Park Hill’s streets in the sky to Portland Works and the Firth Court Rotunda, discover hidden gems, tours & stories that shaped our city.

📖 Download the guide from @sheffield_hods 👉 www.sheffieldhods.com/_files/ugd/b...

YouTube video by KryptoniteLocks Proper Lock Up Tips and Advice

Kryptonite Locks have been out in Sheffield, showcasing our grey-to-green 🌳 transformation of the city centre & Kelham. With new people-friendly streets & cycling routes 🚲, they’ve been helping riders learn how best to secure their bikes m.youtube.com/watch?v=R9bB...

Deepcar celebrates local hero marking 50 years as a lollipop lady The Deepcar community has come together to honour lollipop lady Jackie Higginbottom, as she marks 50 years of helping thousands of children safely get to school.

Across the city we’re grateful for our School Crossing Patrols. It’s only the second week back for most children, but already they’re benefitting from the care and dedication of people like Jackie www.thestar.co.uk/community/de...

People tell me on the doorstep how important reopening DSA is. This week South Yorkshire leaders backed its return ✈️ — creating jobs and opportunities, building on Sheffield’s leadership in sustainable aviation research, and making sure it has strong public transport links

Quite the backdrop today — an aircraft hangar in front of a Vulcan bomber — for the South Yorkshire MCA meeting chaired by Oliver Coppard with leaders including cllr Tom Hunt taking a big step towards reopening Doncaster Sheffield Airport

Fish Passage on the River Don A story of the work carried out to improve fish passage on the River Don and bring Salmon back to Sheffield

You can also explore how @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social and partners are transforming historic weirs — once used to power factories and mills, into safe fish passes storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4991...

Salmon breeding in River Don for first time in 200 years The Don Catchment Rivers Trust says evidence of spawning is beyond its

The BBC has a great piece on how salmon are returning to Sheffield’s rivers after centuries — showing how restoring our waterways is bringing back wildlife www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🐟 For the first time in 200 years, salmon are breeding in the River Don! Thanks to our brilliant Flood & Water team who delivered the fish pass at Sanderson’s Weir — a milestone partners across the region have worked towards for two decades

First’s decision to hike bus fares for young people in Sheffield, just as the new term begins, is a real kick in the teeth to the next generation. Roll on bus franchising!

We’re cracking down on private car operators in Sheffield. If they don’t follow the rules then we will fine and shut them down.

And the Labour Government is bringing in tough new standards to clean up the industry

As a city, we’re focused on tackling congestion and keeping Sheffield moving. Deep in the Town Hall, our control room helps speed up your journey—whether you’re heading to school, work, the shops, a hospital appointment or a night out app.thestar.co.uk/story/inside...

Sheffield set to become UK's biggest city to trial new zebra crossings, hoping to boost active travel and cut road deaths The new crossings are a hundred times cheaper than traditional zebras, but are not currently recommended by the Department for Transport.

Sheffield will be the UK’s biggest city to trial side-road zebra crossings — simple, low-cost changes to make streets safer. We’re already leading Yorkshire on School Streets. This is the next step.

Thanks @maxsullivan.bsky.social for the inspiration

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Calls to clean up England’s ‘toxic air’ as GP visits for asthma attacks rise 45% Exclusive: Doctors say clean air zones need expanding, after 45,458 visits in first half of this year – up from 31,376 last year

We’re making a real difference in Sheffield—especially for the most vulnerable—by improving air quality. Since introducing our Clean Air Zone (which doesn’t charge private cars), pollution has dropped & more people and businesses are switching to cleaner vehicles www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Kapital – Sheffield’s largest ever beer hall and restaurant is now open, delivered by local independent Two Thirds Beer Co. Another fantastic addition to our transforming city centre – with rising footfall and a real buzz in the air this summer www.sheffield.gov.uk/news/2025/ka...

🌍 This week we welcomed the council-backed Sheffield Energy Hub to Cambridge Street — a one-stop shop helping people cut bills, tackle climate change & explore retrofit and renewable energy

Open Mon–Fri, 10–4 — a whole community effort www.sheffield.gov.uk/news/2025/fo...

. @kelhampride.bsky.social has been a huge success this year, bringing thousands of people into our city to celebrate love, inclusion, and our incredible LGBT+ community. Brilliant to enjoy it alongside @oliviablakemp.bsky.social and some of our fantastic city councillors

Great to visit our Urban Traffic Control Centre team in the Town Hall — the nerve centre keeping Sheffield moving.

Congestion could cost the UK £21bn a year by 2030. Tackling it is all part of our plan for quicker public transport, fewer delays and a better-connected city

Today is #CleanAirDay 🌬️ Great to join Ballifield Primary School pupils and hear about their brilliant work raising awareness of why clean air matters. Also enjoyed seeing Smokey Joe in action at one of our brilliant assemblies, bringing clean air history to life

🐾 Dogs like Gem deserve clean rivers — and so do we.

Labour’s new Water Act is now in force, banning exec bonuses at water firms like Yorkshire Water when they pollute our rivers or break the law.

A government on our side here in Sheffield, cleaning up our rivers.

🚍🚊 £1.5bn for South Yorkshire’s public transport from the Labour government — better buses, new trams, upgraded stops & a greener, joined-up network. As we prepare to take buses into public control in 2027, this is the investment we’ve waited for — with a government on our side

Great to join Cycle Sheffield’s Big Ride 2025 with Cllr Elle Dodd— a brilliant, family-friendly event. More people are cycling in our city, using new protected cycle lanes and people-friendly streets, cutting congestion and boosting health and wellbeing

Thanks for getting in touch about this. We will look into it today and get back to you shortly.

Update: It was meant to be removed in April. We are following it up today and I’ll get back to you.

Delighted that from 18 May, there’ll be 1,000 extra seats every Saturday on the Sheffield–Manchester route—on top of the 1,000 added each weekday back in December by @tpexpresstrains.bsky.social. More space, more comfort, better public transport

Absolutely and thanks for flagging it up.

You're right that there's a huge amounts of work that needs to be done to improve our streets. Take a look at our new Walking, Wheeling and Cycling Investment Plan that lays out how we will invest as a city over the next two decades: sheffieldcc.moderngov.co.uk/documents/b3...

Possibly just shows it's standard issue kit for Parkrun volunteer and with work on regeneration projects—hi-vis (and a hard hat) comes with the territory? Above all, perhaps fluorescent yellow is just my colour?

Great to join volunteers at Norfolk Heritage Junior Parkrun —set up with help from our local ward pot. It’s free, fun & great for your little ones. Research by @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social: 89% feel fitter, 73% better mentally & 84% of volunteers feel happier #loveparkrun

Investing in high quality public space works—Fargate footfall up 45.5% in a month, city centre up 3% year-on-year. We’re creating a city centre we can all be proud of. Great coverage in the Sheffield Star today