{"id":56346,"date":"2025-05-07T15:34:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=56346"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:31:38","slug":"sheffield-castle-regeneration-project-in-need-of-an-extra-5-million-to-complete-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/sheffield-castle-regeneration-project-in-need-of-an-extra-5-million-to-complete-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield castle regeneration project in need of an extra \u00a35 million to complete development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An additional \u00a35 million will be needed to complete a regeneration project at the former Sheffield Castle site in the city centre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gateway to Sheffield regeneration project, was announced in 2021 and aimed to turn the existing \u2018sea of concrete\u2019 that was castle gate into a thriving and connected area of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principal development officer, Lucie Lorente- Annua, said at a meeting of Sheffield City Council’s Transport, regeneration and climate policy committee on April 30: \u201cThis will provide a place making catalyst in terms of economic, environmental and social elements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The budget of this project was initially forecast to be \u00a321 million but due to complex redesign issues regarding introducing an 8 metre high tiered element on the flat site, the budget has been forced to increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castlegate is regarded as an area of anti-social behaviour, retreating retail and vacant land in the heart of Sheffield, however the completion of this \u2018grey to green initiative\u2019 is hoping to provide a significant event space, exhibit the archaeology found and create a happy and green area for Sheffield’s community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Alex diamond, said: \u201cGreen space will be key to ensuring the health and wellbeing of projected 20,000 new residents and existing city centre residents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Workman at the Sheffield Castle site which is undergoing redevelopment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This project is hoping to celebrate the historical archaeological beauty of Sheffield’s history, found in the site of  where one of the biggest castles in Northern Europe once stood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through this regeneration, many important structures of archaeological importance were excavated including one of the oldest cementation furnaces in yorkshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Lorente-Annua, said: \u201cThis is a story of how a medieval castle became a thriving and industrial city in the north of England.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project has created huge interest at local, regional and national levels, with one notable goal of the project being to introduce a fish pass containing salmon in the River Sheaf which will flow alongside the new development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Alex Diamond, said: \u201cSheffield should have an ambition to have rivers that are clean enough to swim in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inspiration for this project stemmed from the success of similar \u2018grey to green\u2019 regeneration works which include the restoration of Kelham Island, which was voted by The Sunday Times as the best places to live in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the continued support and success of previous similar projects, the calls for increasing costs to regenerate Sheffield’s castle site has caused its completion date to also be postponed from February 2026 to the end of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An additional \u00a35 million will be needed to complete a regeneration project at the former Sheffield Castle site in the city centre. The Gateway to Sheffield regeneration project, was announced in 2021 and aimed to turn the existing \u2018sea of concrete\u2019 that was castle gate into a thriving and connected area of the city. Principal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":56356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152,5,165],"tags":[340,12,55],"class_list":["post-56346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-council-2","category-news","category-top-story-4","tag-grey-to-green-park","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56594,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56346\/revisions\/56594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}