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Councillor Ben Miskell
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Deputy Leader of Sheffield Labour🌹 | Chair of Transport, Regeneration & Climate🏗️🚍🚆🚲 | Vice Chair Yorks and Humber Climate Commission🌿🌍
Eagle-eyed visitors may have seen Kid Acne’s great new artwork on the Coles Car Park ramp taking shape. Thanks to Bridget Ingle and Friends of Sheff City Centre. It’s helping make the area even better as we look ahead to the wider transformation by Urban Splash and the Council
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
We’re rolling out Bike Barns at 10 primary schools across Sheffield — giving children safe, dry storage for bikes and scooters, improving air quality, tackling congestion, and making the school run easier and safer 🚲🌿 www.sheffield.gov.uk/news/2025/br...
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Great to join the Glow Ride tonight. Women & girls should feel safe cycling any time of day. Cycle Sheffield & @cyclinguk.bsky.social are right to call for well-lit routes that put safety first.

We’re building better footways & segregated cycle lanes — safer streets for everyone
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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.
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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...
September 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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
September 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
September 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🐟 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
September 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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!
August 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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
August 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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...
July 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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...
June 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🌍 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...
June 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
. @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
June 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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
June 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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
June 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🐾 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.
June 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🚍🚊 £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
June 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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
May 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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
May 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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
May 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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
May 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Just one day to go until an important set of elections across the country. There aren’t any scheduled in Sheffield this time, so our Sheffield Labour team have been out in Doncaster supporting Mayor Ross and Labour council candidates 🗳️
April 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Great to be working with Heeley TARA, Cllr Mia Drazaic and local residents on plans to improve the Lichford Rd/Derby St green space for children and families. Fantastic to hear people’s ideas—driven by volunteer energy and possible support from the Community Infrastructure Levy
April 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Great to welcome E.ON’e executive team to Sheffield. Their Blackburn Meadows Biomass Plant powers up to 30MW of low-carbon energy—helping firms like Forgemasters cut emissions. Sheffield’s leading on heat networks, with zonal-scale plans to cut bills and carbon
April 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM