Sheffield's Heart of the City Regeneration
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00:00 Introduction
00:48 Heart of the City I
07:28 Heart of the City II
This video covers the history of the Sheffield Heart of the city 1 and Heart of the City 2 regeneration schemes in the city centre. These have been ongoing since the 1990s leading to the creation of the peace gardens, winter gardens, pounds park and new buildings.
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ABOUT JORDAN REEVE
A full-time planner, Jordan Reeve specialises in creating videos about the built environment to tell its stories. The topics cover the historical development of cities alongside psychogeography-style walks, which aims to uncover the urban environment as well as pose questions about the space and place in which we live, work, and play. He lives in Newcastle Upon Tyne and attempts to showcase the modern face of a former industrial city, which is still finding its way in regeneration.
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Nice to see a UK based urbanist channel. We need more like this!
Not if they are presented by semi literate numpties who have no idea of the history of Sheffield and no real connection to it. This guy is just after his media studies degreee.
Sheffield has been royally messed up by many bad ideas. I'm concerned the regeneration is far too reliant on students and night life rather than proper mixed businesses
Sheffield has been messed up by one incompetent London government after another. Total lack of infrastructure investment, over decades of neglect.
Meadowhall opening in late 80s killed off a lot of trade from Sheffield and Rotherham town centre, free parking and more choice of shops who can argue with that. Shame they got rid for the hole in the road roundabout, that was icon, bad decision.
That was done to facilitate the Supertram which only serves a small number of the population.
Meadowhall didn`t have to kill off the city centre. Other major cities co exist with a thriving centre and shopping malls on the outer. Yes shame the hole in the road went, nowhere to have a piss!!!! More like a no go zone than an icon.
Sheffield does public spaces really well - Peace Gardens, Station Square, Winter Gardens, Tudor Square etc. A lot of cities don't have things like this and it really makes the place a pleasant place to be.
Sheffielder speaking - Barkers Pool really IS Bar-kers, NOT Bakers or Bay-kers Pool. And the two big pub losses from the 1990s are (1) The Underground and (2) The Wapentake, an underground pub where (amongst others) I glimpsed Def Leppard and Lemmy milling around with the locals in town. Two really hot underground venues for Rockers in the 1980s.
The Grand Hotel demolished in I973 to make an office block.
In the basement was the Buccaneer rock pub. Could never be replicated.
Sheffield council wrecked the centre, no thought process, blindsided by the money dangled in front of them
5:50 I'm a Sheffielder and I love the way you've included this plaque. It's not something I've noticed before.
All Britain’s cities were trashed to varying degrees back in the post war era up to the present time. It’s a mammoth task to revive these city centres as so much damage was done by architects/planners delivering their “brave new world” which of course morphed into a dystopian nightmare.
I'd say further damage was done with the building (and continued building) of out-of-town shopping malls, retail parks etc. The car industry is catered for at the expense of people.
@@adsheff Cheaper brown field land on the outskirts. More space for big stores, global chains and parking.
You are so right. My city of origin, Plymouth, was subjected to exactly what you say and has never recovered..even less now when the 'retail offer'!! has been superseded by online. The asphalt and concrete motor city the planners built was horrible and is now dilapidated
Not so mammoth
It needed regeneration too. It was hit pretty hard in 1984. Threads🤣
OMG that movie traumatised me!!
I had my first visit to Sheffield a few weeks ago to look at its post-war architecture.
It is great to see your video and I loved seeing all the redevelopment. The city is full of promise.
I noticed how much post war architecture there was on this visit, almost a post 1945 vision of a city centre still standing
The problem with Sheffield and all other town and city centres in the UK is a lack of people living and working there, we need a higher density of people in our town centres, more people living in our towns will bring life and money back to them , just visit any town or city centre in Spain or Portugal and see how they make city centres work, its not rocket science.
For that you need a great public transport system for the city (the Supertram is a fantastic start) and infrastructure-given how broke the UK is at the moment I wouldn't hold my breath…!
Exactly! I is like that in the big city in France where I live. I live right in the centre...and because there are many other people living near by there's a friendly café which serves lunches just one minute from mine, there are shops and trees, a tram line ( free at weekends) there's a dentist and doctor just opposite where I live etc etc There are many mature trees which people love...
I heard recently that over 30,000 people live in the centre of Sheffield.
Shared this to my Love Sheffield Media Room on Facebook, I haven't watched all the way through yet but I really appreciate your work.
The problem with Sheffield city centre is that it is being redeveloped to attract young hipster types who don’t drive. Us old, hip-replacement types have nothing to bring us in, and everything to keep us out: anti-car policies, rough sleepers, an increasing knife crime problem (even if only a perception). If you want to shop for something special, go to Leeds. Hell, if you just want to wander around shops, go to Chesterfield. Why Sheffield, there’s nothing there now except bars, restaurants and fast food?
If ex-students stay, develop businesses with low environmental impact etc., etc. then new shoots may appear but, sadly, it seems to rely on the annual influx of new students to support its hospitality-based nighttime economy.
What's a good city in UK for old, hip-replacement types then?
@bilbo8338 Cheap, easy car access that doesn't involve navigating new one-way systems and bus lanes that are designed to trap unwary visitors (Manchester, yes I'm talking about you as well).
City centres that have more than student-focused shops, bars, nightclubs and endless ridiculously expensive coffee houses.
Centres where there aren't rough sleepers at the entrances to every Tesco Local, and you don't get accosted by beggars and Big Issue sellers in the bus queue.
Clean and safe public toilets.
A city where kids don't carry knives.
A city where certain elements of society aren't having en masse fights, and drug gangs aren't shooting at each other.
Basically, most city centres but 50 years ago 😡
Really enjoyable watch Jordan, great job would love to see much more like this!👌
Other than your positive comments about the landscaping which you should really come back and see in the spring and summer around West Bar out to Park Square roundabout, I think most of the developments are inappropriate in size, scale and blandness for the kind of city that Sheffield is. Yes, I’m all for more housing and commercial development in and around the city centre, but not enough thought, time and effort has gone into making sure the new buildings fit in with their surroundings and are of sufficient quality to last for more than a few decades. We must get to a point where we stop demolishing buildings every few years - it’s incredibly wasteful for the environment. There is no reason why we shouldn’t build to last centuries rather than decades!
Sheffield City centre suffers from alot of problems. I worked in the train and bus stations for a while, and people asked for directions. You either tell them to walk a mile or get a taxi. You can point them towards the tram, but you're waiting for an irregular and expensive service to go a few stops. You could drive into Sheffield, but parking is expensive, the park and ride system is pathetic (I'm comparing it to York, Askham Bar is free, always has spaces, £4return and a regular service).
Once you're in the centre, you're welcomed with constant building works and people canvassing. The shops aren't special, nothing you couldn't get elsewhere in towns/cities. Most pubs in the centre are not welcoming, but the student ones on the outskirts are fine.
Sheffield is best described as a university city, student housing everywhere and the usual priority to build them rather than any other project. Without them, the city would be far worse
Fascinating video, thanks mate
Fantastic, really love the focus of your videos! And excited to see how you're growing as a youtuber!
Great video, and you should also do a video about Leeds Southbank.
Really interesting, especially comparing regeneration of Newcastle with other cities.
Long overdue a trip to Sheffield. Haven't been since the late 70s when my sister was at teacher training college.
Mostly full of immigrants like London now. Horrible
Good job Jordan. Are you a city council member now? I am coming to Sheffield in mid May. I look forward to exploring the area thanks to your video.
Sheffield seems very different from Leeds, Leeds seems a lot more upbeat and has a great vibe, also some fantastic Georgian and Victorian architecture
Leeds centre is better, there's no debate, but you have to remember, a lot of Sheffield was flattened in WW2, even in the 50's and 60's the rubble was still there, I'm guessing there wasn't a huge amount of money floating around for regeneration so must had to be done on tight budgets and brutalist architecture was thought to be the future......well, some still like it but yuk.
@@rickbaines8262much old architecture was demolished after the war and is still the case now.
I'm a Sheffielder..great video
I'm very puzzled by the tarmac infill to underground services - the work gets specified by the services utility in question, which should require the interim storage and relaying of paviours. Final completion should not be certified before the status quo ante is restored. No certificate, no final payment to the contractor. This restoration should in turn be a provision of planning permission granted by the council.
It needs a few sky scrapers to look like a city look at Manchester
Ground to a halt, not grinded! Bloody hell.
Great video - do you know when Urban Splash are aiming for completion of their refit of Cole Brothers / JLP
Excellent work. Was a student there in the 80s, i know the Student Games are still being paid for (!). The tram works (like Manchester) cause huge traffic issues impacting businesses.
You need to come to Birmingham, not sure they know what town planning is!
Just finished paying for it.
Great video, I work in the city centre & it's great to see it changing for the better. BTW its Barkers Pool not Bakers 😊
For those of us old enough to remember it is not changing for the better.
The new Sheffield looks amazing and interesting. Thanks for sharing, from new sub👍🙏❤️
Mate i live in Sheffield and Sheffield council have wrecked the city big time
A very good video, well-presented and animated, unlike the Sheffield of the past as I remember it. I was born & bread in the city in the 1950s and can only say, after watching this, that it has been going downhill ever since. A city is made up of its people. But despite shiny new buildings such as the ones you presented here, the city centre looks dead, like a set from '28 Days Later' after a virus decimates the population. Despite the little parks and other 'green spaces' I'd have to say that there's nothing in Sheffield now that would ever attract me back, unfortunately.
In the 1980s Sheffield had more department stores than anywhere in Britain apart from London.
People from from as far as Leeds and Manchester would take extended shopping trips to Sheffield.
Meadowhall obliterated Sheffield city centre. That was the first major mistake.
The second was hosting the World Student Games in 1991. An event that garnered no commercial interest.
The final mistake was the tram system. Sheffield had a perfectly good bus service. A city as hilly as Sheffield didn't need a tram system. It took five years to build and caused so much disruption many businesses closed and never reopened.
I left Sheffield in 1988. Returning for the last time in 1995 was a haunting experience but I'm glad I left.
@@tumslucks9781 You're certainly correct about Meadowhall... although I've not been there in years, that's where all the shops are nowadays.
The tram system is a disappointment, that's for sure. I was living at Waterthorpe at the time that it was opened, but with the prices of bus fares going up in the mid-1980s (thanks to Thatcher), many people just gave up on them (my own bus-fare from Waterthorpe went up eight times, from 15p to £1.15 overnight). The tram system, thirty years' later, is still very limited in routes offered.
And, although I was involved in the World Student Games of 1991 and enjoyed them very much, the city lost a great deal of money as a result of hosting them. They were so poverty-stricken, in fact, that the gas which kept the 'Olympic flame' burning, was even extinguished overnight, to save money!
Are you joking? Tram is great. Shame the network is too small. But thats due to people like you moaning about tram killing city. Buses are horrible on the other side. Tram would make the same journey in 15 minutes that bus does in 50. And they also run on time most of days. Unlike buses
@@Speedkam You evidently don't like people having their own views.
8:25 so well observed, would you like a seat on our Sheffield City Council. I wish I was laughing.
why do municipalities love "water features" - ( boring and dead ) and hate trees ( lovely and full of life when mature) ?
With the Cambridge street collective and leah's yard really forming the heart of the redevelopment I'm surprised you didn't mention them. They've not opened yet but will likely drive heavy footfall back to cambridge street and help bridge the gap between Division street and the Moor.
On the John Lewis/cole brothers store I largely agree and hope that at the least the carpark will be demolished as it does nothing for the surrounding streetscape
I do agree regarding Cambridge street and Leah’s yard. however as they weren’t open yet it was difficult to discuss too much about them, as the only details are mainly marketing information
@@JordanReeve Yeah that's fair enough, you should come back in the summer for an update! Would show how good the suds look in full bloom too.
Sheffield needs its own version of Canary Wharf (like manchester is doing) accompanied by a proper initiative to attract Tier 1 businesses and well paid professionals to the city. This is what will regenerate it.
It’s a lovely place to live but I wouldn’t make any money there, so I won’t move from London.
Ultimately, land use developments shouldn’t be reliant on govt grants to fund themselves. If Sheffield builds things people want and need, these investments will pay for themselves - unlike a big new shopping centre that nobody wants, or student accom which is both high-risk and leads to highly cyclical demand
nice vid
Absolutely fascinating ..thank you 🙏🏼
Glad you enjoyed it
We really are terrible at town planning in this country
What i would do with John Lewis building
Idk if you heard of Afflecks in Manchester but try and make the John Lewis building the Affects of Sheffield if you go down Divison Street you see more alt shops then add the the car pack as a market space that runs form bottom to top maybe make tge Salvation army building into a pub
Thing im suprize you didnt do is explore Sheffield Victoria train staion
Also do think south yorkshire shoukd have a metro like you luckily Goredies have and tbh you should have a tram aswell i remember seeing a proposal for one in a charity shop in grager town
That's a great idea for the Coles building. I love Afflecks. Only thing close is The Forum on Devonshire Street which is tiny in comparison. I believe a similar idea was touted for the former Debenhams building with some European company interested but it seems to have gone quiet there. Its definitely time for them to extend the tram network further afield like in Manchester linking up the local towns. Now its back in Mayoral control something might happen.
@antonycharnock2993 indeed my hope is they will extend it too the Airport
Barker's Pool, not Baker's, also ground to a halt not grinded, and Fargate is a thoroughfare not a throughfare. Come on, if it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly! Fair comments on most of the buildings, though, some are a little bland.
Great video
Thanks!
Thankyou for covering Sheffield
HC2…..sounds familiar…
You're very handsome.... Good for you!
Couldn’t they see what would be the effect of the internet ?
Where is the money commin from???
Very nice. Turning at least part of Cole Bros. into a library might not be a bad idea.
Interesting video Jordan and I have just realised I have never been to Sheffield, I may take myself down for a wander around.
Its got a pleasant city centre, I would recommend a visit to Kelham island just outside of the city centre. A former industrial area with a similar vibe and regeneration to the Ouseburn in Newcastle
The council have well and truly ruined it. Sure they are actually trying to force people away from the city centre. All modes have transport have been banned, even buses have to park on the outskirts. You can build all the nice buildings in the world but no point if no one can get to them and there all empty.
What happened to building with imagination
Feels more like Afghanistan in the city centre. Deal with that first! And stop closing roads in the centre, so no one can drive in. Its like they don't want people in the centre.
Cars kill centres. You end up with car parks and multi lane traffic gutters that are uninviting to everyone
Why are you against walkable cities??? Get the cars OUT and the centre will be much more pleasant
@@hi1905what about the people that struggle to walk ? Buses don't even go through the centre anymore
@@pjw9124 walkable cities don’t exclude public transportation
@@hi1905 they do in Sheffield
if you not got the money to finish a job dont start that job in the first place .and finish what you have started
What a sad excuse for a city centre. I've seen some disaster areas in the UK but Sheffield gets the gold medal. The so-called 'modern' buildings are exactly what city centres do not need. If businesses want offices then let them go to a business park, just like industries have an industrial park.
From what I've seen, nothing can save Sheffield. Very sad. I certainly won't be visiting.
This video only covers about 1/3 of city centre
You won't be visiting......In the words of Mr Clarkson, 'oh no'.......'anyway'
@@rickbaines8262 Yes, massive loss, I'm sure. Regardless, what a sad state for a city to fall into, even if it is only a portion of it. Politicians and architects are a dangerous mix - both desperate to impress.
As King Charles said about 30 years ago, architects and those funding them have done more damage to London than the Luftwaffe. How true. And obviously to Sheffield too.
That sounds very like American zoning which just doesn't work and is very inefficient. Watch City Beautiful.
@@MrCherryJuice Sheffield has some very unique features compared to other major cities. It was never a major commercial city like Manchester or Leeds, it relied on its manufacturing and skilled labour so it never developed many of those really grand Victorian buildings(only the villas to the West where the wealthy steelmakers lived). The centre is also really linear meaning you have to walk for ages which is why it needed centralising with the Heart of the city project.
Multiple millions wasted away on regeneration, which will be trash heaps in a decade.
the sterile default modern style architecture leads much to be desired.
The city along with London and Coventry was heavily bombed during WW2 to take out the steel works. Consequently much of our Victorian and Georgian architecture was destroyed. Central Sheff has slowly transitioned into a vibrant and pleasant place to live. The rental and purchase prices are now sky rocketing tho. Personally the tram works fine for me but we usually park in Atkinsons. Looking forward to the project finishing.
If it was accessable it would be a bonus. Retail don't want to go to a no go area. They should have looked after and nurtured what they had got instead of wasting money on opposition around the city. It's typical of decisions made by people who have no business accumen.
Until they reduce 4 lanes of traffic down to a single lane in each direction around the 'heart of the city' it'll be uninviting to most. Like most cities and towns in the UK there is far too much emphasis on prioritising motorists, knocking down entire communities and buildings to construct yet more roads. As opposed to looking after people walking, cycling and wheeling inside these communities.
Can you do a Documentary on Yorkshire Forward
Also i want to say Sheffield is a city that is Yesterday's Future form parkhill flats too the library one must adimire our skill in our peoples the peace Gardens was once bigger yes but i feel it in modern states is has hope the old egg boxs great yes the function should still be done
Im a sheffield resident that spends lot of time in Newcastle and studied there, Sheffield centre is shocking compared to Newcastle. While this development is good, its s bit like polishing a turd. Sheff centre is dead.
Sheffield a northern city? The Geordies are laughing, anywhere sooth of Durham is the sooth 😂. Still l do like Sheffield been many a time and made quality steel . Great video as always young man 👍
People in Glasgow are laughing at Geordies calling Newcastle a northern city.
@@wallycustard1281Was just referring to England. As Scotland is more North than England stand to reason but are the folk of Inverness and Aberdeen laughing at Glasgow being in the North? 😁.
And anywhere north of the tees is basically scotland
Good luck telling Sean Bean he’s a Southerner. Hopefully you will keep one tooth 😂
I often wonder why SCC wants to attract so much public attraction to the city centre when itself insists 500 lives are lost each year due to vehicle emissions. Ponds Park invites you all to bring you children to play. 500 people a year will die if they come to this park . (their data not mine).Co2 emisions for all of these project are beyond this ration
We need to undo all the terrible mistakes commited in the 60s by the god aweful brutalist movement. Replace those monsters with (a) majestic steel and glass skyscrapers to build a unique skyline; (b) back-to-basic buildings, à la Poundbury. I'm happy that many cities are making stride towards this.
I would not shed a single tear if the modernist John Lewis was raised. I do not understand the listing of such buildings just because they are an example of a particular style. The question is does it have any merit, does it add to the area and the answer has to be no if you look opposite. It was a crime it was built in the first place and listing it just compounds that crime. The body that does listing should be more than a closed club of of architects with their heads in books. Don't save ugly to prove that ugly existed.
Apart from the disgusting utility companies making everything uglier on purpose and whatever the council have decided to do to fargate for the past few years, I think the heart of the city 1 project has aged very well
The council should be welcoming people into the city center, not driving them away with their obsessive anti car policy. Hopefully, the green, libs, and labour will be voted out.
15-minute city? Or should I say prison.
Can you explain how the idea of a 15 minute city = prison?
@@elishuakurtz3551 the idea is that you should have everything you need within 15 minutes walk. I say walk because they’ll want every walking or cycling - no cars so you wouldn’t be able to leave that area at all. A large 15-minute prison.
Gay Architects on acid
So Much Low Quality and Ugly Modern Architecture
To be honest the city looks outdated and drab.
It's very mixed and the council must hold much of the blame.
Yes, and the new buildings are quickly adding to that drabness and will very quickly become outdated.
It doesn't look like that if you visit in person.
@@wallycustard1281it does.
@@misscoutts6193 No it doesn't.
What an uninteresting looking city.
The problem with sheffield is the same as any other city or town in the uk , the tory party are in power of the goverment