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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This was sent to me via the council email system.
May be useful.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jillian</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Road closures - G8 Justice & Home Affairs meeting<BR><BR>As you may
already know, Sheffield is hosting the UK Presidency G8 Justice &<BR>Home
Affairs Ministerial Meeting from 15-17th June. Consequently,
the<BR>Council and South Yorkshire Police have agreed some road closures
to<BR>accommodate security needs for the meeting. These closures will mean
no<BR>access for vehicles. These are: <BR><BR>1) Roads around the Marriott
Hotel, the main venue for the meeting, will be<BR>closed from Monday 13th June,
specifically Kenwood Road. <BR><BR>2) The Winter Garden and Millennium
Galleries will host a formal welcome<BR>reception on the evening of Wednesday
15th June. Several roads around the<BR>venue will be closed; Surrey Street
from its junction with Norfolk Street<BR>down to Arundel Gate will close from 12
noon (pedestrian access will also be<BR>limited), Norfolk Street will close from
4.00pm (this will not affect the<BR>rear entrance to the Town Hall, but you may
want to use the front entrance<BR>instead), and Arundel Gate from 6.00pm.
Central Library will close at<BR>4.00pm, and access to the library will be just
from the Children's Library<BR>entrance on Arundel Gate from 12 noon. The
Graves Art Gallery will close<BR>earlier than normal. The Winter Garden
and Millennium Galleries will be<BR>closed all day on the 15th June.<BR><BR>3)
The Cutlers' Hall will host a Gala Dinner on the evening of Thursday
16th<BR>June. Again several roads around the venue will close from 6.00pm
onwards<BR>including Church Street, High Street, Fargate, York Street and
several side<BR>roads. Supertram will terminate at Castle Square and
Hanover Way for both<BR>inward and outbound journeys from 6.00pm on the
16th.<BR><BR>Other than these limited local restrictions on the particular dates
the<BR>remainder of the City Centre will operate as normal. Council
services<BR>provided from the Town Hall, Howden House, Derwent House, Redvers
House and<BR>other central locations should be unaffected and will operate in
the usual<BR>way.<BR><BR>If you work or have meetings in the city centre on
these days, you may want<BR>to plan your journey home from work on the 15th and
16th June so that you<BR>set off before 6.00pm, before most of the road closures
become effective. <BR><BR>I am sure you will agree that for an event of this
type and scale the level<BR>of disruption to the city is relatively minimal and
certainly manageable.<BR>The event presents another wonderful chance for us to
showcase Sheffield<BR>nationally and internationally, with around 150 of the
world's media and<BR>over 200 delegates and officials from the G8 countries in
the city for three<BR>days. This meeting will bring both economic benefit to the
city and a boost<BR>to Sheffield's profile. <BR><BR>If you have any queries
about these arrangements or the event itself please<BR>contact Mick Crofts
at <A
href="mailto:michael.crofts@sheffield.gov.uk">michael.crofts@sheffield.gov.uk</A>
or 27 34022, or<BR>Natasha Wagstaff at <A
href="mailto:natasha.wagstaff@sheffield.gov.uk">natasha.wagstaff@sheffield.gov.uk</A>
<BR>or 20 39079. <BR><BR>Please will you pass on the information in this
briefing to any colleagues<BR>who don't have access to this email.<BR><BR>Best
wishes<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>