Sheffield City Council has apologised ‘unreservedly’ after a report found the authority mishandled a dispute over the felling of thousands of healthy trees.
In an open apology, chief executive Kate Josephs and leader Tom Hunt admitted a ‘dismissive approach,’ said the council ‘withheld too much information for too long’ and took an ‘unwisely punitive approach to contract managing Amey’.
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