Sheffield City Centre

Masterplan

The masterplan provides

high-density city living,
generating both job
opportunities and population
levels required for new leisure,
entertainment and local retail
facilities.

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Sheffield, England 2000
Sheffield, largely created by the prosperity
of its manufacturing industries, is once again
becoming a centre of commercial activity,
driven now by information technology,
education, culture and services sectors.
Cohesive and dynamic urban regeneration
is now recognised as the centrepiece of
community and economic regeneration.
The city urgently needs an improved
physical environment, weaving together
existing fractured urban fabric whilst
providing new jobs and long-term prosperity.
The masterplan’s first target is outdated
infrastructure and buildings which are no
longer able to meet the needs of new and
growing business sectors. A significant
proportion of the retail core lacks attractive
street level access as seen in other
European cities. The plan encourages well-
designed buildings and spaces supported
by additional financial leverage in order to
stimulate new investment.
Its main aim is to revitalise inner-city areas,
encouraging residents, businesses and
retailers to take advantage of the renewed
potential created within the city’s core.
The plan offers improved access and
circulation, balancing the requirements for
public transport, cyclists and pedestrians
and those of goods vehicles and private
cars:
• strategic transport links
• improved local access – separation of
cross-city traffic from core access
• public transport – integration of bus, rail
and supertram routes, making stronger
links between the rail station and the city
centre
Sheffield City Centre Masterplan
Architect
Richard Rogers Partnership
• cycle and pedestrian areas – linking
component activities while focusing on
safety and orientation
• car parking – review of overall demand,
supply location, charges and operation.
The strategic, spatial proposals of the
masterplan are designed to build confidence
and encourage new investment in the city
centre:
• improve public realm by high quality
design
• create an attractive, walkable city free
from congestion
• enhance Sheffield’s image by building
refurbishment, redeveloping high-profile
vacant sites and upgrading visually Public transport links and interchange
unattractive areas
• establish attractive and useable open
spaces
• develop principal ‘gateways’ to the city,
including train/tram routes.
The masterplan provides high-density city
living, generating both job opportunities and
population levels required for new leisure,
entertainment and local retail facilities.
Recommendations for specific sites and
projects represent a response to the
spatial, social and economic opportunities
highlighted by analysis and consultation.
Neighbourhood identities and consolidating
development