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Welcome to our first monthly Streets Ahead bulletin!

Over the coming months, we will be using these bulletins to keep you up-to-date on work going on in your area as well as signposting you to useful information about all things Streets Ahead.

In our first bulletin, we have an update on the grass cutting schedule, advanced notice of roadworks starting on Handsworth Road later in the month and we celebrate the success of the Amey Challenge Cup.

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Grass cutting

Grass cutting on Yew Lane in Sheffield

Our grass cutting programme is back on track after a difficult start this year.

The very wet spring meant the grass was much longer than usual when the season started in early April. Progress was slowed in part by our heavy machinery getting stuck in the soggy ground, and by excessive amounts of cuttings sticking to the blades of the mowers requiring frequent stops to remove and clean the blades.

The grass cutting programme is now back on our website following a month's pause to enable us to catch up. Our grass cutting teams are working overtime and at weekends to ensure we get around to all areas of the city as quickly as possible.

If you're concerned about the grass in your area, please check the website first as we may be about to cut the grass where you live. If it's only a week or so until we're due to visit, please give us time to get there so we can keep to our programme.

Thank you for your patience.

Essential work starting on the bridge over Handsworth Road roundabout 

Handsworth Road roundabout

Phase two of our planned work on the bridges over Handsworth Road is set to start on Monday, 22 July 2024.

The work involves strengthening the bridge piers over Handsworth Road roundabout under Sheffield Parkway. One lane of the roundabout will be closed whilst this work takes place to keep motorists and our workforce safe.

The work will be carried out in two phases with the first phase that starts on 22 July due to be completed by mid-November. The work will then be paused, and the lane closures removed until January 2025, when the work will restart and continue until May 2025 when it will be complete.

Motorists should expect some traffic congestion at the Handsworth Road interchange, including the slip roads on and off Sheffield Parkway as well as on Handsworth Rd itself. Access to the ASDA superstore is unaffected and the slip road to their petrol station remains open.

Sheffield Springs Academy win Amey Challenge Cup

The winning team from Sheffield Springs Academy with teachers & judges

Each year Amey holds a Challenge Cup event in Sheffield aimed at encouraging girls to consider a career they may not otherwise have thought about, by looking at all aspects of an engineering project.

This year teams from Sheffield Springs Academy and Fir Vale School took part in the challenge to design a structure to replace the collapsed Eastham bridge in Worcestershire. Each structure must span the river to allow traffic to cross and must be strong enough to carry a load.

After each team had designed and built their structure, Mentors from Sheffield City Council, Amey and National Highways calculated the cost of their design and estimated how long it would take to build. Once completed, the teams presented their design to the judging panel and tested its strength. 

The verdict of the judges was that it had been the best year for designs and presentations as four out of four structures built by the teams passed the strength test - something rarely seen!

Huge congratulations to Sheffield Springs Academy who were worthy winners of this years' Amey Challenge Cup.