With the increased awareness of the need to have a healthy, safe, attractive place in which to live and work, Sheffield City Council asked the people of Sheffield to help draw up a charter for the environment. This video represents a cross-section of views, thoughts, and concerns about the environment and suggestions of how to make Sheffield a more attractive place in which to live. A montage featuring several individuals taking part in this film plus someone completing a questionnaire....

With the increased awareness of the need to have a healthy, safe, attractive place in which to live and work, Sheffield City Council asked the people of Sheffield to help draw up a charter for the environment. This video represents a cross-section of views, thoughts, and concerns about the environment and suggestions of how to make Sheffield a more attractive place in which to live. A montage featuring several individuals taking part in this film plus someone completing a questionnaire. Title: Sheffield’s Draft Charter for the Environment Title: What the People Say To camera Councillor Clive Betts states that we are becoming more aware of the need to have a healthy, safe, and attractive place in which to live and work. He goes onto to say that this video represents a cross section of views, thoughts, and suggestions of local residents to a draft charter for the environment. The Sheffield city centre skyline changes to a vox pop with people on the street giving their opinions and ideas about changing the Sheffield environment from re-cycling to one man who states he has converted his car to unleaded petrol. Predominantly buses travelling along a congested city centre street with people crossing in front of them. Sitting with her two young children Liz Shore talks about the rise in road pollution and congestion since the de-regulation of the buses with more vehicles on the road, it will be her children and their generation who will have to deal with it. She is also concerned about their health from them breathing in exhaust fumes. As she talks, she and her children try to cross a busy road and fumes being pumped out of exhausts. Orchard Square open-air shopping centre with pedestrians walking past and pensioners sitting on benches chatting. On the roads more road congestion. In voice-over other people give their opinion on the issues and come up with some solutions such as the Super-Tram project to improve public transport. In the countryside a polluted river with an old tyre, a chair and other debris thrown into it. A small outlet pipe pumps a liquid into the river. Again, in voice-over people talking about the issues if river pollution. Archive of industrial chimney’s pumping smoke into the atmosphere changes to contemporary footage showing similar chimneys near housing and businesses including Stockbridge Engineering Steels. In voice-over people talking about how air pollution has improved, but there are still problems. Interview with David Stone from Stockbridge Engineering Steels about the work they have done to reduce pollution in their manufacturing processes. As he speaks inside the works steel being produced intercut followed by a wildlife projects sponsored by the company at Fox West Wood where local school children plant shrubs. Two riders on horseback trot along a country road changes to a lake where an angler is fishing. In an urban park a couple play with their dog throwing a large stick for it to chase after while others walk their dogs through the park. In voice-over people talking about the importance of green open spaces and the issues some people have with dog owners who allow their animals to foul the parks. As they speak a small boy playing near a large dog and a council dog warden van arriving at the park and takes away an animal. In a play area Liz Shore pushes her young son on a swing, in voice-over she talks about the health issues for small children from dog mess. The Dog Warden takes a call on his radio about a stray dog changes to a woman picking up, bagging and throwing away in a waste bin her dog waste. The feet of people walking along a busy street passing rubbish such as crisp packets and Coca-Cola cans, in voice-over a woman complains about the lack of street cleaners. Two of The Wombles come out of Sheffield Town Hall with the Mayor and other dignitaries. A street cleaner speaks with the mayor followed by the Mayor sweeping the street and being filmed by a television news crew. At the city dump the rubbish in a skip is unloads before being moved by heavy machinery. In voice-over people saying we can’t go on burying our rubbish. Garbage arrives at a reclamation works where it is sorted before being burned and turned into heat. In voice-over a woman explains how the process works and over views of local offices how the heat generated is used to heat these buildings in the city centre. At a local scrapyard workmen use guillotines and acetylene torches to cut up and recycle scrap metal before a crane with a magnet lifts the metal dumping it into a skip. A recycling centre at a local Asda supermarket where glass and cans are put into skips by passers-by. In voice-over someone’s says this has to be the future. A young woman placing plastic bottles into the recycling receptacle changes to Millie Moore coming out of her house carrying a recycling blue box. As she places the box in her driveway for collection in voice-over she provides details on this pilot scheme. A recycling lorry pulls up along the road and two young women unload the content of two boxes into specific bins on the lorry. One of the women arrives at the Millie’s property and takes aware her box replacing it with an empty one. Inside Millie sits in a chair and provide additional information about the scheme. A woman and two small children walk through a city park while other visitors sit on benches enjoying the weather. Two women sit on a bench overlooking a busy road below changes to a man on a bicycle cycles along a cycle path passing a sign for ‘Sunnybank. Sheffield’s First Urban Nature Park’. Cars travel along a Derbyshire country roads and a family going for a walk in the countryside. The Turner family go for a walk through a local wood. Sitting on a sofa surrounded by her family Jan Turner talks about the need for forestry management in local woods, as she talks she and her family continue their walk through a wood with her husband one of her daughters using a pair of binoculars to look at local birds and wildlife. They walk to a local stream where an old refrigerator has been dumped. As the Turners head towards a home, a group of young people carrying pickaxes and one pushing a wheelbarrow comes over the brow of a hill and begin working along the banks of a pond. As they work Steve Byers talks about the importance of forming local groups to improve the local areas, he goes onto talk about the work the children are doing around the pond. Outside her local Odeon cinema sitting in her wheelchair disabled user Alex Zingas talks about the problems accessing the building. A man on crutches walks into the Ruskin Craft Gallery accompanied by his family, in voice-over he explains how good the gallery is for disabled access. Archive of Sheffield slum houses and construction of the Park Hill estate changes to contemporary views of the estate and other high-rise apartment building in an around Sheffield city centre. In voice-over a woman explains what it was like to move into one of the new Park Hill flats, she goes onto provide details of the current issues with the flats which she believes should be pulled down. A modern housing estate changes to demolition work taking place on an apartment block. Men work on scaffolding renovating Stannington flats changes to show other renovated apartment blocks and local amenities with a man in voice-over explaining why and how this is possible. The exterior of the Aizelwood’s Mill followed by the Samuel Osborn & Co. Ltd building with a man in voice-over talking about developing these building into flats. Cars parked along Greasbro Road, at the far end scaffolding surrounding several properties. Carol Kent from the Greasbro Road Residents Action Group talks about the formation of the group and the work already done by local residents to clear up the area and get the local council to envelope and close of the street to industrial traffic. Another resident Gazi Sadiq talks about the parking restrictions which they have been able to arrange to prevent issues with lorries. As Carol talks about the building of a children’s play area, she kneels on the floor looking over said playground plans with other members of the residents group. A montage sequence featuring two young children speaking in unison saying what they would like to see more of in Sheffield; more litter bins, less traffic, more green spaces, good designs for buildings, and most importantly of all more trees. Title: Thanks to all the organisations and people of Sheffield who helped make his video Title: Excerpts from ‘Stocksbridge Engineering Steels’ by permission One of the children working on a pond seen sits looking contemplative, in voice-over he comments that just being aware isn’t good enough they need to do something as well. Title: A community video for Sheffield City Council Credit: NorthStar Television and Video Productions End title: Views expressed in this video are not necessarily those of Sheffield City Council but represents a cross section of peoples concerns and comments on how to improve our city.