We have received images today of demolition work at the rear of the Old Coroner’s Court on Nursery Street. This was an important building for Sheffield and things should never have come to this. For historical background see: https://sheffielder.net/2020/08/19/old-coroners-court/ In
Shocking update on Sheffield’s Market Tavern – more to follow
When HHB learned just before Christmas of the decision to demolish the historic Market Tavern, we immediately appealed to Sheffield City Council to look for another way. We managed to persuade them to halt works whilst outside help was found.
Save the Market Tavern
News (just before Christmas) of the imminent demolition of Castlegate’s Market Tavern was met with great sadness. Sheffield Council’s Building Control team had deemed the building unsafe and said it must come down. Sad resignation has now been replaced by
Rails House Farm in the Rivelin Valley – another 18th Century farm in Sheffield’s golden frame is threatened with demolition
Just three years ago we were fighting against the needless destruction of Bennett Cottage in the lovely Mayfield Valley, facing down an owner who did not value the historic landscape and its ancient buildings – except as something to stare
Save Mappin’s Coffee House! (updated June ’23)
HHB discovered in March that the developers behind plans to demolish Mappin’s Coffee House, KMS ESTATES LIMITED, were applying for permission to demolish independently of other plans mentioned below. We raised this with SCC and requested that an Article 4
Sheffield’s draft Local Plan needs fixing- consultation ends 20th February
An effective local plan provides rules to protect our heritage, but Sheffield’s proposed plan has three gaping holes:
Remains of Sheffield’s first workhouse and only cotton mill – Cotton Street and 24 Alma Street 22/01020/FUL
The world is finally catching on to what we all knew.. Time Out Magazine recently voted Sheffield the second best destination for a weekend break in Europe. That should be no great surprise; Sheffield is Britain’s greenest city, with all
Listing of the former Coles/John Lewis building, Sheffield
HHB very much welcomes the listing of the former Cole Brothers/John Lewis building. Historic England’s listing calls it “a rare example of a post-war department store designed by a leading architects’ firm to an accomplished modernist design using strict geometry
Leah’s Yard and the proposed loss of the Sportsman’s Inn.
Sheffield City Council’s final proposals for the Heart of the City II development are mixed. Despite some welcome developments, HHB are objecting to this planning application because of the unnecessary destruction of yet more of Sheffield’s heritage. We hope our
162 -170 Devonshire Street 2021 application
Six years on and Primesite are back with one of the most tasteless planning applications we have seen. Can they get away with this? There are lots of reasons to think not; the application is weak, valid planning reasons to