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
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:
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
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
Heart of the City 2 consultation Please take two minutes to email your thoughts (even just a very brief response is better than nothing) or fill in the online questionnaire, telling Sheffield Council what you think of proposals for inner
The planning application to demolish Bennett Cottage, near the top of Mayfield Rd in Mayfield has yet to be determined (a decision has been now been postponed twice). If this application is approved it will have far reaching consequences. Please
Fantastic news that the University Arms pub on Western Bank has been declared an Asset of Community Value which gives it a reprieve (possibly temporary) from demolition. This pub, and the delightful Victorian backwater to the rear, were all set
With the Grosvenor House Hotel gone and building underway, Sheffield’s New Retail Quarter is finally happening. The original ‘Sevenstone’ scheme ground to a halt when the developer Hammersons (who had also bought up all the property) lost interest in the
