{"id":295778,"date":"2025-07-27T11:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T11:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295778\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T11:49:17","slug":"handsworth-campaigners-protest-to-save-sheffield-green-belt-land-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295778\/","title":{"rendered":"Handsworth campaigners protest to save Sheffield green belt land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Wood and Heidi Tomlinson<\/p>\n<p>BBC News, Yorkshire<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752661270_973_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/72621680-6ad3-11f0-8c84-c5f4b0ed4e68.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Heidi Tomlinson\/BBC Five women and one man hold placards on the side of the road. One of the signs reads: Honk! Show support for S13 Greenbelt\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Heidi Tomlinson\/BBC<\/p>\n<p>The campaigners held signs at the side of the road in Handsworth<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Campaigners opposing the building of 1,600 houses on green belt land in the Handsworth area of Sheffield took to the streets on Saturday to stage a roadside protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Under Sheffield Council&#8217;s local plan 3.6% of the city&#8217;s green belt would be developed, including homes offices and industrial buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Actor Sean Bean, who grew up in the area, previously objected to the Handsworth plans stating they would &#8220;practically obliterate the character and nature of our area&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Handsworth resident and Save S13 Green Belt campaigner Debi Dent said Bean&#8217;s assistance in raising the profile of the issue had been &#8220;amazing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Sean is a local lad. He used to walk on those fields to school because his parents lived on this main road here,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We fully understand the government policy and the local authority&#8217;s policy that we do need housing, but Sheffield has vast swathes of brownfield sites that can be reused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752661270_973_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9c26fd50-6ad3-11f0-8c84-c5f4b0ed4e68.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Heidi Tomlinson\/BBC Sue Smelt a woman with a short grey bob\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Heidi Tomlinson\/BBC<\/p>\n<p>Sue Smelt said the green land was an &#8220;oasis&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Fellow campaigner Sue Smelt said much of the area&#8217;s green space would be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;This is a lovely little oasis that&#8217;s surrounded by housing estates already,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;S13 is a densely populated area and whilst we&#8217;re not disputing that people need somewhere to live, we don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate that 44% of all the new houses will be built on our green belt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Sheffield City Council leader Tom Hunt previously said the homes were needed to &#8220;tackle the housing crisis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The council added that greenbelt land would only be considered because there were no suitable brownfield sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The consultation period on the plans has ended and a decision is expected later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grace Wood and Heidi Tomlinson BBC News, Yorkshire Heidi Tomlinson\/BBC The campaigners held signs at the side of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-295778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114925048329195762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}