Save Chapeltown, Ecclesfield and Grenoside's Green Belt

02/11/2026

🎉 OUR 50/50 CHRISTMAS DRAW IS NOW LIVE! 🎉

It's time to get involved! Our 50/50 draw is officially OPEN, and you could be in with a chance of winning UP TO £10,000!😍💷

Half of the money raised will go to one lucky winner, with the other half going towards supporting our campaign to protect our local green spaces and fight inappropriate development. 🌳

*THE BIGGER THE POT, THE BIGGER THE PRIZE!*

The more people who enter and share, the bigger the potential winnings. So spread the word, get your tickets and help us make this our biggest draw yet!

🎄 The draw will take place on 19th December at 12 noon – just in time to give one lucky winner an extra special Christmas! 🎁

🎟️ Click here to enter and view our terms and conditions: https://save-our-greenbelt-ceg.sumupstore.com/product/50-50-raffle-cash-draw-christmas

Every entry makes a difference, both to the prize pot and to our campaign.

Please share far and wide and help us spread the word!

Thank you, as always, for your incredible support. Together, we can make a difference! 💚

02/11/2026

📢 WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER. WE NEED YOU THERE!

📍 Sheffield Town Hall
🕐 1pm: Gather outside the Town Hall
🏛️ 2pm: Full Council meeting (public gallery)

The Council promises development that "works for everyone". For our communities, it means losing precious countryside, productive farmland and wildlife habitats, while roads and services that are already overstretched take on even more pressure.

Many residents feel ignored, marginalised and abandoned by the very Council elected to represent them.

BUT WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY!

On Wednesday, we will once again be challenging councillors, asking questions and demanding accountability.

💚 Show councillors that we still care.
💚 Show them that we expect to be heard.
💚 Show them that our communities will not be ignored!

📢 Bring your banners and placards and let's make our presence felt!

You don't need to speak. Just being there sends a powerful message. Join us outside at 1pm and, if you can, stay on for the Full Council meeting at 2pm.

✍️ CAN'T MAKE IT? PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION!

We're approaching 10,000 signatures on our city-wide petition to protect Sheffield's Green Belt. Help us get over the line!

👉 saveourgreenbelt.net/sheffieldpetition

💚 OUR GREEN BELT. OUR COMMUNITIES. OUR FUTURE. 💚

PLEASE COME ALONG, SIGN AND SHARE!

Restore transparency and accountability in how planning decisions are made — listening to the voices of the people who live here.

30/10/2026

💚 S35: OUR GREEN BELT SUBMISSIONS ARE IN! 💚

CEG Save Our Green Belt and the Sheffield Green Belt Alliance have both submitted our final responses to the Further Main Modifications consultation on the Sheffield Local Plan.

After months of research, evidence gathering and working with residents and experts, our CEG submission sets out detailed concerns about the seven proposed Green Belt allocations in Chapeltown, Ecclesfield and Grenoside.

We have challenged the Council on:

🏘️ The concentration of development in our communities
🚗 The pressure on roads, healthcare and local infrastructure
🌾 The loss of productive farmland and wildlife habitats
❓ Whether the promised housing and employment benefits can realistically be delivered

🙏 A HUGE thank you to everyone who has contributed, shared, donated and supported us to reach this point. These submissions represent an enormous amount of work by dedicated volunteers, and we couldn't have done it without you.

📄 Read our CEG submission here:
https://www.saveourgreenbelt.net/_files/ugd/a3fa79_da5dbca3419549e2b951fa563a08f988.pdf

But submitting our evidence does NOT mean our campaign is over. Far from it! The Inspectors will now consider all responses, and we will keep pushing every step of the way. Please keep following, keep sharing, and keep talking to your neighbours. 💪

💚 OUR GREEN BELT. OUR COMMUNITIES. OUR FUTURE. 💚

28/10/2026

🚨 UNBELIEVABLE. A NEW 16-PAGE EVIDENCE DOCUMENT WAS PUBLISHED ON THE FINAL DAY OF CONSULTATION!

The document is dated APRIL 2025. Residents are only seeing it TODAY, the day the consultation closes. 👇

📅 Today, 28 October, is the deadline for responding to Sheffield Council's Further Main Modifications consultation.

📝 Our volunteer group has spent countless hours researching, gathering evidence and preparing a comprehensive 35-page submission covering the SEVEN Green Belt sites threatening Chapeltown, Ecclesfield and Grenoside.

✅ We submitted it this morning, well ahead of the 5pm deadline.

😳 Then we discovered that another 16-page document, EXAM238, had just appeared on the Local Plan examination website.

📄 It is an Equality Impact Assessment relating to the additional Green Belt allocations. It covers health, age, disability and the cumulative impacts of development.

⏳ And when was it prepared? APRIL 2025, with a review date of JULY 2025.

Yet residents and community groups are only seeing it on the very day the consultation closes.

❓ How is that fair?
❓ How can communities properly scrutinise evidence when they are given virtually no time to respond?

📢 We have formally objected to the timing and asked for an explanation, together with an opportunity for further representations.

🙌 We are volunteers, not paid planning professionals. We have worked tirelessly to make sure our communities' voices are heard.

We deserve a FAIR, OPEN and TRANSPARENT process. This is simply not good enough.

✍️ If you haven't already, please sign and share our petition:
👉 saveourgreenbelt.net/sheffieldpetition

💚 CEG Save Our Green Belt Action Group

Restore transparency and accountability in how planning decisions are made — listening to the voices of the people who live here.

13/10/2026

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE SUPPORT

On the evening of our recent Glow for the Green Belt event we raised just shy of £750. We are so grateful to our community for supporting this event 💚

Since the event we have received over £1500 in donations via our Crowdfunder site, meaning that in the last few weeks we have received over £2000 in donations.

This money continues to fund specialist planning and legal advice. However, this specialist advice comes at a cost and is becoming even more important as this process progresses.

Please continue making a donation to support our campaign: https://www.saveourgreenbelt.net/donate

11/10/2026

📢 OUR FURTHER MODIFICATIONS PAGE IS NOW LIVE

The latest Sheffield Local Plan consultation closes at 5pm on WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER, and we've made it as easy as possible for you to have your say.

👉 https://www.saveourgreenbelt.net/mainmods

On the page you'll find:

📄 A Key Points for Residents briefing for EACH of our seven local Green Belt sites, setting out what's changed and what you can comment on
✉️ Simple guidance on how to email your response to the Council
✍️ A suggested structure, so you know exactly what to include

Your response doesn't need to be long. Three or four sentences in your own words, drawing on your local knowledge, can be enough.

🌳 Please don't assume that because our group is responding, you don't need to. Every individual response from residents counts.

Have a look, pick your site and send yours in before 28 October. And please SHARE this post so your neighbours can do the same 💚

If you know any of our seven Green Belt sites, perhaps you walk there, know how the land is farmed, see the wildlife or use the surrounding roads. Your local knowledge could help the Planning Inspectors assess this new information.

05/10/2026

💚 WE NEED YOUR HELP AGAIN 💚

Every time there's a consultation on the Sheffield Local Plan, it costs us around £10,000 for legal input. The Main Modifications consultation is now live, and we are preparing to respond on behalf of our community. ⚖️

Thank you to everyone who came to the march on Saturday! 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ It was a huge success and together we raised £700. That's a brilliant start, but we still have a long way to go to reach £10,000. 🙏

Our representations WORK. The Planning Inspectors have already credited public submissions, including ours, for bringing new evidence to light. That only happens because people like you make it possible. 🙌

This next stage is crucial. The Main Modifications are the council's proposed changes to the Plan, and it's our chance to make sure the voice of Chapeltown, Ecclesfield and Grenoside is heard loud and clear, backed by proper legal expertise. 🌳

👉 Donate via Crowdfunder here: https://www.saveourgreenbelt.net/donate

EVERY amount helps, whether it's £5 or £500. We genuinely appreciate every single donation. 💚

💬 If you'd like to make a larger donation outside of Crowdfunder, please get in touch with us directly at [email protected]

Please share this post so we can reach as many people as possible. Together we can protect our Green Belt for future generations. 🌿

04/10/2026

In case you missed last night’s speech from Jo, here it is again.

One message: Sheffield’s green belt is worth fighting for.

03/10/2026