The South Local Area Committee met on 30 September 2025 to discuss high street improvements, the Love Kelham project, and the area committee budget. The committee was also scheduled to hold an interactive discussion, and to receive questions from the public.

South Local Area Committee Budget Report

The South Local Area Committee was scheduled to discuss a report on the South LAC Budget for 2025-26. Each Local Area Committee has a £100,000 budget to address local priorities. The report set out spending decisions for 2025/26 made since the last LAC meeting by the Community Services Manager in consultation with Councillor Simon Clement-Jones, Chair of the South Local Area Committee, and in accordance with the delegation granted by the South LAC at its meeting in October 2024.

The report recommended that the South Local Area Committee note the funds spent under delegated powers since the July 2025 South LAC meeting.

According to the report, Local Area Committees (LACs) were established by Full Council in May 2021, with terms of reference set out in Part 3 of the Council's Constitution, including:

To agree a Community Plan setting priorities for the area of the committee, monitor delivery of that plan and keep it under review; and To make decisions relating to funding as delegated from time to time by the Council to fit with the priorities set out in the Community Plan and following engagement with the community.

A new Community Plan for 2025/26 was agreed at the South LAC meeting on 1st July 2025.

The Community Services Manager is authorised to make decisions on expenditure from any budgets allocated to the Local Area Committee provided that:

• The decision is taken in consultation with the Local Area Committee Chair
• Spending is in line with any specific purposes of the allocated budget
• The decision may not approve expenditure of more than £10,000 per item.
• A report detailing the delegated spending decisions taken by the Community Services Manager is presented to the next Local Area Committee meeting.

Funding delegated by Full Council to LACs in 2025/26 amounts to £100,000 per LAC. At the March 2025 LAC meeting it was agreed that, as in previous years, this funding would be divided between wards, with each receiving £25,000 for work in line with community plan priorities.

Since the previous LAC meeting on 1st July 2025, expenditure had been approved under the delegation set out above for:

• Beauchief and Greenhill Ward
  • Additional Ward Pot funds £437
  • Additional street art funds £800
• Graves Park Ward
  • Woodseats High street planning/ brackets £282
  • St Chads community space development £3824
  • Additional Ward Pot funds £3945
  • Brindley TARA day trip £447
  • Street art licence £200
  • Leaflet printing £41
• Gleadless Valley Ward
  • Additional Ward Pot funds £1558
  • Community skips £1124
  • Leaflet printing £144
• Nether Edge and Sharrow Ward
  • Speed indicator device removal £388
  • Street art licence £200

All expenditure was agreed following consultation with Councillor Simon Clement-Jones on September 4th 2025.

The report stated that this decision directly contributes to the following outcomes in 'Together we Get Things Done, the Sheffield City Council Plan 2024 - 2028¹:

Great neighbourhoods that people are happy to call home LACs work with communities to improve the places and spaces that make neighbourhoods great places to live and be active People live in caring, engaged communities that value diversity and support their wellbeing – LACs work with communities to build engagement into the way we work so that we listen better and work together to find shared solutions.

An Equality Impact Assessment (EIA 2787) has been developed to reflect the ongoing allocation of the LAC's budget, assessing the range of groups of people and interests likely to be impacted in equality terms. This has identified positive impacts associated with the protected characteristics of age, disability, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief; and other areas of inequality associated with health, poverty and financial inclusion, and social cohesion.

High Streets

Joy Arnott, Economic Recover Fund 2 Project Manager, Sheffield City Council, was scheduled to give a presentation on high streets.

Love Kelham

Joe Spriggs from Love Kelham was scheduled to give a presentation.

Minutes of Previous Meeting

The minutes of the meeting of the committee held on 1st July 2025 were included in the report pack.