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12/12/2023
Funding Secured To Demolish Unoccupied Buildings In Sheffield
Sheffield City Council has secured external funding to demolish two unoccupied buildings for the Gleadless Valley Masterplan.
Two former Sheffcare sites, Paddock Hill on Gleadless Road and Castelayn on Leighton Drive, have been awarded funding from central government for the release of brownfield land by One Public Estate's (OPE) Brownfield Land Release Fund 2.
A planning application has now been submitted and should it be successful the demolition of the buildings will be complete before the end of 2024.
The sites are not part of the published Gleadless Valley Masterplan, but have been identified as suitable sites to build new homes on.
Once completed, the building of new affordable homes in Gleadless Valley will allow other key actions within the masterplan, such as selected demolition, to continue as planned.
Chair of Sheffield City Council’s Housing Policy Committee, Cllr Douglas Johnson said: "This new funding will help unlock key sites, which have been an eyesore in Gleadless Valley for some time and will create new affordable and sustainable homes. These multiple benefits come from good use of funding from the Brownfield Land Release Fund.
"The need for affordable and sustainable housing in Sheffield has never been more pressing. I welcome any opportunity to provide more social housing and I look forward to seeing some visible progress on these sites in due course.
"There has been positive work through the locally elected councillors, the cross-party working group and the staff team in Gleadless Valley and this has been essential to meet the challenges of high inflation affecting a major regeneration scheme."
Two former Sheffcare sites, Paddock Hill on Gleadless Road and Castelayn on Leighton Drive, have been awarded funding from central government for the release of brownfield land by One Public Estate's (OPE) Brownfield Land Release Fund 2.
A planning application has now been submitted and should it be successful the demolition of the buildings will be complete before the end of 2024.
The sites are not part of the published Gleadless Valley Masterplan, but have been identified as suitable sites to build new homes on.
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Once completed, the building of new affordable homes in Gleadless Valley will allow other key actions within the masterplan, such as selected demolition, to continue as planned.
Chair of Sheffield City Council’s Housing Policy Committee, Cllr Douglas Johnson said: "This new funding will help unlock key sites, which have been an eyesore in Gleadless Valley for some time and will create new affordable and sustainable homes. These multiple benefits come from good use of funding from the Brownfield Land Release Fund.
"The need for affordable and sustainable housing in Sheffield has never been more pressing. I welcome any opportunity to provide more social housing and I look forward to seeing some visible progress on these sites in due course.
"There has been positive work through the locally elected councillors, the cross-party working group and the staff team in Gleadless Valley and this has been essential to meet the challenges of high inflation affecting a major regeneration scheme."
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