How does your neighbourhood grow?

Sheffield City Council is currently talking to people about the part of the Sheffield Development Framework that looks at City Policies and Sites. This focuses on places in Sharrow in a lot more detail and so will impact on the day to day life. These include:



• Residential (Housing, flats etc) no longer being an acceptable use of the ground floor units along London Road District Centre. This is so that it is retained as shops, restaurants and takeaways, drawing people in to the area and serving the needs of local people.



• Abbeydale Road will be contracted into three smaller neighbourhood centres rather than running the full length of the road. This will offer the potential for residential uses between these sections of shops .



• Shoreham Street and Worstenholme Road would not be designated as neighbourhood centres. This is due to National Planning Policy which states that “small parades of Shops of purely neighbourhood significance are not regarded as centres”.



• The Lower Porter Valley area would have a preferred use of Offices.



• Guernsey Road area and the Queens Road corridor is proposed for a flexible range of
employment uses with housing no longer accepted.



• The John Street area would be subdivided into two mixed use areas with a respective bias towards housing for the John Street Triangle Conservation Area and Offices for the area along Bramall Lane. This would mean that general industry and warehouses would no longer be accepted. This would have an impact on sites such as Stag andPortland Works .



• Protection is given to historic cemeteries as well as parks and gardens, this means the General Cemetery and St Mary’s Church.



• Gateways to the city centre will be improved. The policies at the moment specify that this will be to create striking tall buildings at the ring road .



It is currently possible to comment on these proposals and to view them on the proposals map. This can be accessed at www.sheffield.gov.uk/sdfconsult .



For more info see: Sharrow Today issue August 2010 page 8.

Portland Works Exhibition at Bank Street Arts

From Tuesday, 30 March 2010 - 10:00 To Saturday, 17 April 2010 - 17:00

Portland Works A curated group exhibition designed to draw attention to the traditional skills practiced at Portland Works and the people whose livelihood depends on it continuing as a working/creative community. Portland Works is under threat of closure as one of Sheffield’s remaining small industrial works, because of plans to redevelop it as apartments and offices. This lively and diverse exhibition of art and craft is designed to engage Sheffield people in an awareness of their industrial heritage and its relevance to their lives. The exhibition blurs the boundaries between art and industry, situating the objects of production, both past and present in an art gallery context, for public viewing. It juxtaposes artefacts produced by craftspeople against artists’ responses to the objects and their environment in the form of paintings, photographs, installations, sculpture and film. This exhibition runs from 30th March to 17th April Nic Bate and Matt Risby An installation comprising of video and sounds depicting one whole day in the working life of Portland Works. This comprises of multiple screens showing edited footage of the inhabitants of the Works; craftspeople, musicians, artists etc to portray the diversity and breadth of talent that exists there. This exhibition runs from 30th march to 1st May, Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm For more information, please contact Bank Street Arts on 0114 346 3034‎

Location : Bank Street Arts, S1 2DS‎

Portland Works and the John Street Triangle

Update on Portland Works/ The John Street Triangle.

http://portlandworks.blogspot.com/2009/07/english-heritage-traditional-crafts-and.html

Masterplan for Lloyds Corner

This is a plan of action for Sheffield City Council produced by Distinctive Sharrow Action Group to help them make decision on how to improve Lloyd’s Corner for the benefit of local people, ensuring it is placed in context with other local community buildings.

(please click on images to enlarge)

Portland Works is under threat!

Portland Works is under threat!

A group of metalworkers, cabinet makers, musicians, artists, sole traders and others based in Portland Works, a grdae II* listed 'little mesters' works in Sharrow, Sheffield who are gathering to keep Portland Works alive and save it from development as bedsit flats...

Please visit the website if you are intertested in being involved or knowing more about what is going on: http://portlandworks.blogspot.com/