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
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
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
YET ANOTHER LITTLE BIT OF GEORGIAN SHEFFIELD
This time it’s not quite as prominent or as central as the last subject, and many people probably don’t even know that this little enclave exists, but it must be one of the best groups of Georgian buildings in Sheffield.Pitsmoor
Heart of the City 2 consultation
The previous Sevenstone and New Retail Quarter schemes involved the obliteration of most of Cambridge Street and Wellington Street. The latest scheme is a vast improvement.
A LITTLE BIT OF GEORGIAN SHEFFIELD
Sheffield has one or two little pockets of early buildings which have somehow escaped the bulldozers and one is on a street which few people venture down due to our convoluted traffic systems. I refer to Bank Street which was
SETTING A STABLE ENVIRONMENT
A previous Blog told the story of a large horse hospital in the centre of town at Lady’s Bridge but a little-known smaller site sits less than a mile away. You probably drive past it everyone day at the bottom