When Hallamshire Historic Buildings warned recently of further horrors to come for Sheffield’s fragile and precious built heritage after the shambles of the Market Tavern, we never dreamt it would be so soon. For around a century a glorious Tudor-inspired façade
August update: Apologies that events have overtaken us and our website coverage of the now long running saga surrounding Sheffield Council’s demolition of the Market Tavern has been lacking. We are greatly indebted to Now Then magazine for the determined
Update Summer 2024 In March we gave news of demolition work at the rear of the Old Coroner’s Court on Nursery Street. Sadly this did indicate the worst and in subsequent weeks the building was demolished, There was simply nothing
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 Sad resignation has now been replaced by
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
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
An effective local plan provides rules to protect our heritage, but Sheffield’s proposed plan has three gaping holes:
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
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
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
