A select minority in the local council didn't care, but the citizens and those who protested (and got arrested) over this overwhelmingly did.

Since the protests, the council stopped cutting the trees down and reversed course.

Sheffield has more trees per person than any other city in Europe. Around 4.5 million trees for a population of 600,000 (7.5:1).

This is specifically the council. Local resident care an awful lot about their trees and there are many local campaigns to make sure something like that doesn’t happen again. I think the local labour party ended up replacing some of the MP’s involved. (I live in Sheffield)