Don Valley Stadium are so many examples of Council waste where cuts could and should be made without affecting local residents." On 11 January 2013, Sheffield City Council announced that the stadium was to be closed and demolished as part of a £50 million budget-cutting measure. An eleventh hour meeting was held at Sheffield Town Hall on 1 March 2013. Local and national politicians met to discuss the proposed closure and any possibility of preventing it. A final decision was made that the stadium was to close in September 2013 and would be demolished from 21 November 2013. In October 2014, it was
Don Valley (UK Parliament constituency) Don Valley (UK Parliament constituency) Don Valley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Caroline Flint of the Labour Party. Created in 1918, Don Valley is a former coal mining area which has elected only Labour MPs since 1922. The current MP is Caroline Flint, first elected in 1997 who was Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in 2015 and through the Blair Ministry and Brown Ministry served successively as a Health, Employment/Welfare, Housing and Europe Minister of State. 1918—1950: The Urban Districts of Mexborough and Tickhill, and