parkwood springs

Story by the Sheffield City Council North-East Local Area Committee. Every year your Councillors fund activities across Burngreave Ward. This funding includes activities, like the magnificent light festival in Parkwood Springs. We also fund local [Read more]

Story and photos by Graham Jones On 16th October, Parkwood Springs football pitch was taken over by a range of creatures, both strange and familiar. Some of them had even taken to the trees! After [Read more]

The 2021 Parkwood Springs Lantern Festival will be on Saturday October 16th at 4.30pm and finishing at 7pm. Come early and enjoy a great family event! Because of Covid the event will be a little [Read more]

Story and photo by Neill Schofield. The last few months have been a busy time on Parkwood Springs, with some great developments in prospect. Many people have recently got to know Parkwood Springs for the [Read more]

When sixteen live traps put out on the previous evening were opened, Friends of Parkwood Springs were delighted to find one bank vole and eleven very lively wood mice. [Read more]

For the last few weeks people have been busy making penguins, goldfinches, tortoises and spacecraft lanterns for the Beacons Lantern Procession on Saturday 12th October. Everyone is welcome to join as children and adults parade [Read more]

Story by Neil Schofield Photos by Laura Farah, Sherin T Rajan, Jon Dallow, Catherine Brown, John Scholey and Graham Jones In 1999 most of Parkwood Springs could be described as ‘unloved’. A few people knew [Read more]

Story by John Malkin | Photo by Richard Belbin New age travellers living near to the former Sheffield ski village have been told they have 28 days to leave the site after losing their legal [Read more]

Story by Richard Belbin | Map courtesy of Sheffield City Council The city council have launched a six week consultation regarding plans for the development of the Parkwood Springs site over the next ten years. [Read more]

Story by Richard Belbin The court hearing to remove a group of 29 new age travellers from the site below the former Ski Village (see Messenger 137) was held last month. The court heard how [Read more]

Curious about what little furry creatures live on Parkwood Springs? Val Clinging, from Sorby Natural History Society, will be carrying out another small mammal survey. Come to the Cooks Wood Road car park at 8.30am [Read more]

Story by Tamikka Reid | Photos by Richard Belbin Sheffield City Council continue their plans to evict residents of the Ski Village traveller site – located in Parkwood Springs – with a court case set [Read more]

Every year Sheffield produces an amazing and varied programme for Environment Weeks in late Spring. Burngreave hosted a number of these events, from the Victorian streets and cemetery chapel, to the wild spaces of Parkwood [Read more]

Story and photo by Graham Jones On a beautiful Spring day, 19th May, there was a guided tree walk on Parkwood Springs. The friends of Parkwood Springs hosted the event and their chair, Neil Schofield, [Read more]