65% of voters call for Council to move from ‘strong leader’ model to committee model of decision-making, after a sustained grassroots campaign supporting change.
Campaigners are calling on voters to back a new approach to decision-making this Thursday, but representatives of big business think a committee system will lack leadership.
After years of tension over felling, Sheffield Council are keen to promote a new collaborative strategy. But campaigners believe problems with the city's democracy run deeper.