A proactive cross-party approach to the Council’s financial sustainability will be taken to manage the challenging budget situation which Sheffield City Council, like many other local authorities, faces.
Over the past 13 years, Sheffield, along with many other local authorities, has seen significant reductions in funding from central government. Alongside this, demand for services is rising.
Proactive steps are being taken to ensure the Council remains able to set out a balanced budget in the long-term, including transforming services to run in a more sustainable and efficient way.
Today (Thursday 21 December 2023), at Sheffield City Council’s Extraordinary Strategy and Resources Policy Committee, Councillors were given a positive, but realistic, update on the financial outlook for the council and the budget for 2024/25.
It’s a building which has stood in Sheffield city centre for well over a century and now the former Salvation Army Citadel has been acquired by Sheffield City Council.
Sheffield’s flagship Heart of the City development is to get a taste of the continent with the opening of the city’s largest ever beer hall and restaurant.
The ambitious transformation of a building on Fargate in Sheffield City Centre has moved a step closer to becoming reality with the Council able to announce the preferred operator.
Exciting plans to turn an area of land, part of which was once the site of the Sheffield Ski Village, into a Country Park in the city has continued following the confirmation of funding from central Government.
