planning objections and historic information

Sirs,

At a time when the Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward, and Sheffield Council are justifiably proud of the efforts they have made to establish a high technology metalworking cluster on the Advanced Manufacturing Park at Orgreave, I am dismayed to find that they may be willing to extinguish an existing and equally important centre of excellence in metalworking at Portland Works. Whilst the building, in part, may be preserved by conversion to flats, the jobs and skills within it will not. I am currently undertaking a PhD at Sheffield University, studying the historical role of steel and developing new techniques for processing steel. Nowhere else, not even in the University or on the AMP, can I find the necessary skills required to help me in my work. I can find them at Portland Works. I can take metal ingots there, have them indelibly engraved with reference numbers, have the same ingots worked down to strip and then that strip made into tools and cutting edges. Under the same roof.

I am not the first to use their services: almost a hundred years ago Harry Brearly took his first stainless ingots there to have test cutlery manufactured. Does Sheffield really want to throw away such a heritage for the sake of a few more flats ?

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Cater.

New information on objections

Writing objections -the campaign 'hub' portlandworks.co.uk now has full information on how to make a really cracking objection! This will help make sure you hit one of the 'material considerations' for it to really count.
Finally, if someone wants a job, here's a question. How many flats and 'studio apartments' under £100 000 are on the market sale or rent in Sheffield right now? If someone can trawl rightmove and email an approximate answer to me, I'd be delighted! Planning could use the information... derekmor@googlemail.com

To object online, please follow this link:

http://planning.sheffield.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=JYUXQGNYFY000

Post from Robin Wood re: City Culture Strategy

> On monday I attended an open consultation on Sheffields Culture
> strategy and the bid for UK city of culture 2013.
>
> The event started with 30 minutes of open microphone when everyone
> present stood up and said what they wanted included in the new strategy.
> can you believe 25 minutes talk about Sheffield's culture without
> mentioning steel or cutlery?
>
> I said my piece and will follow up in writing to try to ensure these
> are included in the draft strategy. 2013 is the centenary of Harry
> Brearly's discovery of stainless, was it the same year he had it made
> into cutlery at Portland? We should publicise that.
>
> Robin

New Portland Works Website

There is a new website for information on Portland Works here: http://www.portlandworks.co.uk/

This blog will still run in parallel to it...

Galvanised Festival- Portland Works...

Hello,

If anyone wants to visit Portland Works the Galvanised Festival is next Wednesday afternoon... You need to book in: 0114 2734427

Letter in Sheffield Telegraph

I wrote this letter to the Sheffield Telegraph last week when I first heard about Portland Works. Since then I've found out a lot more and I'd like to help with the Campaign. The letter is printed in the 26 November issue - here's the text for those of you unlucky enough to live out Sheffield!

Dear Editor

I was privileged last week to visit Portland Works on Randall Street, as part Sheffield's splendid 'Galvanised' Festival. Few of us in Sheffield perhaps realise what an extraordinary place this is, one of a few surviving complexes of workshops near the city centre which is still. unbelievably, occupied by traditional craftsmen and manufacturers of tools, still in business doing things the way that made Sheffield famous. To see steel being forged, ground and polished into fine and useful tools, and to see the work of a master knife maker, made me proud to live in Sheffield. To see a gentleman, Ray I believe he's called, forging steel as he has done for his working life of sixty years is humbling.

Despite the building's appearance - it seems at first sight to be in advanced decay - it is almost fully occupied by working craftspeople, as well as representatives of a more recent industry, rock bands, who use the space for rehearsals. Having now experienced the sounds of a spring forge at full throttle, I'd say they were well matched.

This is living heritage, not a museum or polished up piece of preserved past. Such a place ought to be treasured by the City, the skills of its occupants valued and perhaps passed on to a new generation through training schemes, and the entire works earmarked for much needed maintenance, possibly even with public funding, to ensure the continuation of these fine and useful commercial activities. I was stunned to hear that plans are well advanced to clear out the existing occupants and convert the building - grade 2* listed - into FLATS. Obviously the existing businesses would be incompatible with residential use. Equally obvious is that some of these businesses may not survive the move. Readers may recall seeing something about this last February.

We have lost so many of these places, many due to disuse and the collapse of manufacturing in Sheffield. Most have been demolished, some have survived to become offices and, yes, flats. And they make very nice flats too I'm sure. But here we are in 2009 and here's a bit of the 19th century still doing what it was built for. This is not sentimentality, this is ensuring the survival of essential skills in manufacturing and providing futures for younger people in our traditional industries and crafts.

I now find the planning application is in again, with a deadline of 10 December, City reference 08/01850/FUL. Is anyone out there doing anything about this? If so can I join you? And if not can we start doing something very soon?

Article on Portland Works

http://projectsheffield.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/new-planning-application-for-portland-works/

New Planning Application for Portland Works!

A new planning application for Portland Works (reference 08/01850/FUL) was validated yesterday by the Council's Planning department and the consultation period runs from now until 10th December.

The application can be found on the Council's website here:

http://planning.sheffield.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=JYUXQGNYFY000

Please pass this information on to anyone else who is involved,

Thanks,

Neil Piper

petition led by sheffield city council...

We are calling on the Government to step up support for South Yorkshire manufacturing in a bid to save what is ultimately the heart of the UK’s industry.

We want to work with South Yorkshire industries and neighbouring authorities to launch a campaign to lobby Government for more support.

We want people to sign our petition in support and show us where they agree with us so we can show Government how much this means to the people of Sheffield.
We are campaigning on the following:

The Government should work and invest with the manufacturing industry to ensure that the industries such as steel making can be ready when the economy improves.

We want more Government-backed training and apprenticeships in the skills that industry needs to keep it ahead of other nations.

We want the Government to do more, including getting help on research and development to prevent manufacturing jobs from going abroad.

We need a simplified research and development tax system that provides genuine incentives for manufacturing companies looking to grow and become more competitive.
If you agree with these points please sign our petition on the No 10 website.

Galvanised Festival- Portland Works...

Please come down to the Galvanised Festval at Portland Works, which is running for the following three Wednesdays, the 18th, 25th Novemeber and the 2nd December between 12-2pm...

For more details please contact Andrew Cole at Wigful Tools on 0114 2725681 or email info@wigfulltools.co.uk

Empty Shops

Wards Corner Coalition: Inspiring Ideas

I have recently been to see a presentation by a group based in Tottenham who are hoping to save a market in their neighbourhood which has independent traders and faces imminent demolition. They have faced massive difficulties and have grouped together to fight the developers/ council.

In their words "The Wards Corner Community Coalition are fighting to prevent the demolition of public place and displacement of people. We are a grassroots campaign struggling to remove barriers of inequality and reclaim the right to Place and involvement in the Planning process. We must demand and encourage processes that push for progressive social and spatial justice in response to urban decline. We must not allow public authorities and private developers to have exclusive rights to say what is in our best interest and to displace those people they claim the development is meant to help."

Their website is http://wardscorner.wikispaces.com/

I have the contatc details of those who have started and maintain this campaign if anyone would like to take these links forward.

Distinctive Sharrow Action Group- Housewarming

We would love to invite people working in Portland Works or intertested in its future to the Distinctive Sharrrow Action Group Housewarming party.

English Heritage, traditional crafts and Birmingham's Jewelry Quarter

English Heritage recently bought a silversmiths workshop in Birmingham

Simon Thurley was quoted as saying "We have stepped in to save JW Evans because it is one of the most important Victorian and Edwardian manufacturies in existence. Its loss would not just be for Birmingham but the world. We now need to secure its long term future as a business and as somewhere people can learn about the source of goods, with which Birmingham supplied the Empire. It is rare to find a country house in desperate straits these days, but the big challenge of the next few years is looking after our industrial heritage. That is much less secure,'

At the start of the English Heritage video here http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.19256

The commentator says "at the heart of this decision is the desire to safeguard a skilled craft which is seriously under threat."


Birmingham City Council also recognise the importance of the living craft skills to the character of the Jewelry Quarter. The area is designated as a conservation area and is a proposed World Heritage Site. The council's management plan highlights the significance of the
area due to "The substantial survival of an historically important manufacturing trade within a distinct urban area." and "A viable level of specialist skills traditionally employed within the core trade." and concludes "The Quarter is unique within the local, national , and international context, for it's high concentration of craft industry with associated trades in one small area....As such it is of major significance with no imediate parallels in Britain or overseas."

This is wonderful to see the recognition of the importance of the craft skills to the heritage of the area and a stark contrast to the situation in Sheffield. With all this stated interest in the skills one would expect significant investment in ensuring their survival. There is recognition that cheap workshops are vital to that survival of the skills and that with prices for residential land eight or nine times higher than industrial use that "if left unchecked, residential developement could overwhelm the quarter." threatening it's survival.

Whilst there follow excelent policies for the preservation of the special buildings of the area there apears to be no specific plan for the support of the special skills which have been highlighted as being of such importance to the character of the area. Under the heading "Grant Aid" we read The highest priority is to secure funding for repairs to buildings at risk."

Recognising the importance of these skills is an important first step to preserving them for future generations we now need to work out what the major threats to the skills are and find ways of ensuring they are passed on.

More info on the Jewelry Quarters website here including a video here

From Robin: Apprenticeships and Heritage

Just a few thoughts I wanted to share.

I have been having a look to see if Sheffield Council have a policy on which parts of the cutlery industry they wish to promote and preserve.

It seems a little like the national position as if no one has realised that this is part of our cultural heritage. The whole idea of living heritage does not seem to have been understood yet despite the UNESCO convention on living heritage in 2003. So there is a culture service plan which can be downlodaed here.

http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/about-our-service/culture-service-plan-2008---09
Other than the Galvanize festival the majority of the plan is to do with museums, galleries and sport.

Culture services mission statement is;

Mission Statement
More people, more culturally active, more often.

I think that if you asked an average person in the streets of Sheffield they would consider cutlery as being an important part of their culture. Look at all the pub names, they even have a football team nicknamed the Blades yet culture services do not recognise, make use of it or build on it. It presents tremendous opportunity for them to increase their audience because a different sector of Sheffield folk may be interested in cutlery but wouldn't visit art galleries and libraries (objective 4 in plan and building on work already started with Galvanize)

I feel we need to call a meeting with all the city MP's and opposition candidates, relevant council people, particularly from culture services, and as many working craftspeople and general supporters of the cause as we can muster. This would hopefully lead to a plan being drawn up to decide what is of value and what we are going to do to preserve and promote it.

On another matter apprenticeships. How have you progressed with the idea? I am in discussion with a few other folk including Kutrite and Wadworths brewery;
Around Christmas Alastair Simms the "last master cooper" at Wadworth's was in the press a lot. I heard after the press that he had 1000 folk write asking to be his apprentice. I have just been in correspondence with him to see how things were going. It seems the brewery can not get a grant for the apprentice working with Mr Simms. The only grants available are for off site training if the apprentice does an NVQ in production.

At Kutrite again they can get money for off site training for a basic NVQ in vaguely related subjects but no support for on the job training under 3 master craftsmen with 130 years experience between them.

It seems to me we need to find a way of getting money made available for training in this sort of situation.

Robin

Some fantastic pictures

Mark has taken some brilliant pictures of portland which can be viewed on flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/0742/sets/72157616843970595/

Meeting With Portland Works Landlord

There will be a public meeting regarding Portland Works this Friday 24th April at 6pm at the Sheaf pub on Bramall Lane...

The landlord/ developer Portland Company has arranged to meet Portland Works tennents. If you are interested, have information that may be pertinent, or can help advise you are very welcome to attend...

For more information please contact Andrew Cole at Wigful Tools


T: 01142899013

Email: info@wigfultools.co.uk

Photographs of Portland Works

A selection of pictures from the Portland Works, taken for the Forge Press.

Portland Works

In 1939, aged 14, I started my working life as an apprentice grinder working for my dad also called Herbert Housley. In those days there were three gas engines that provided the motive power to all the workshops. The engine tender was called Harry Marriot he and his wife were also the caretakes. They lived on the premises, the entrance to their living space was a door just inside the archway. Approximately a hundred people worked at Portland Works at that time, the skills they had in those days were a sight to behold. One such craftsman that comes to mind was Mr Turner, then around 80 years old, he was an Ivory Carver and his speciality was a set of ivory handles each one depicting one of Jesus's Apostles, when carved and polished he fitted them to a set of tea knives.

Promotion on other sites...

From Stuart Mitchel Knives...

I posted a link to the Blog on a UK based knife forum site I am quite active on, it is a very well run, responsible, set up, very highly regarded in knife circles...

Anyway, here's a link to the thread...

http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73304&page=5

The actual topic of the thread may be of particular interest, and maybe this post too...

http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1109980&postcount=62

Sheffield Telegraph: Conversion opposed

Published Date: 27 February 2009

PLANS to convert a historic cutlery works into 77 flats and offices have run into opposition from leading Labour politicians, who say Sheffield's industrial heritage should be preserved,
Central MP Richard Caborn and Labour's parliamentary candidate for the constituency, Paul Blomfield, will today visit Portland Works in Randall Street, near Bramall Lane, which accommodates a number of businesses.

Mr Caborn said: "If the plans go ahead not only will a wonderful piece of architecture have its heart ripped out but traditional manufacturing companies are at risk of being lost from Sheffield."

Mr Blomfield said: "There aren't a lot of small metal manufacturing workshops in the city any more, so where small companies are still involved in the metal trade we should support them."

The works date back to the 1870s and are "one of Sheffield's most significant industrial buildings", according to the national Victorian Society, which is opposing the conversion scheme.

It was at the site that the first stainless steel was manufactured in Britain, produced in 1913 by R F Mosley and Co. A decision on the planning application will be made by the council.

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/Conversion-opposed.5021877.jp


There is also an article in the Forge Press p11. http://issuu.com/forgepress/docs/binder1_issue_10_x_2?mode=embed

manufacturers, business, studios, mucians and artists

Just some of the people who are currently at Portland Works...


Link to artist Mary Sewell's work:
http://www.eveart-uk.co.uk/members/mary_s.html

Stuart Mitchell Knives:
http://www.stuartmitchellknives.com/

Portland Electrical:
http://www.portlandelectrical.co.uk/contactus.html

John Wilson Skating blades:
http://www.cozzisports.com/dante_cozzi_sports1_126.htm

Hexa Gig:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gulch/sets/72157613766588279/show/

If your studio or business is in portland works and you would like to add a link to your website or photos of what you do, please email me and I will post them.

Paul Bloomfield and Richard Caborn Visit Portland Works

"In order to save Portland Works we're going to need to make people aware of how important the place is. Getting media attention will be key to this so it was great to see the local TV news come down to cover the story."

Sheffield Central MP Richard Caborn and Paul Blomfield, Labour’s new Parliamentary Candidate for Sheffield Central, will be visiting Portland Works on Friday 27th February at 9:30am to look around the building and meet with tenants who are opposed to the plans to turn it into flats.

Portland Works, a Grade II Listed Building on Randall Street, is a former cutlery works and is under threat of being converted into apartments. Portland Works is currently home to a dozen manufacturing companies, many of whom are long term tenants and who would have considerable difficulty in relocating. Both the companies and residents have voiced concerns at the plans for Portland Works.

Richard Caborn says:
“I am totally opposed to the redevelopment plans for Portland Works and that is why I am fronting this campaign. If the plans go ahead not only will a wonderful piece of architecture have its heart ripped out but traditional manufacturing companies are at risk of being lost from Sheffield.”

Paul Blomfield says:
“There aren’t a lot of small metal manufacturing workshops in the city any more, so where small companies are still involved in the metal trade we should support them. Forcing these firms to move out would be a real loss. Portland Works is a major part of Sheffield’s industrial heritage so I hope the application is turned down.”

http://www.labourmatters.com/sheffield-central-labour/caborn-and-blomfield-fight-for-sheffields-heritage/

old council news...

25 September 2002

£4.5 Million For Sheffield's Heritage

Almost £4.5 million is to be invested into conserving Sheffield's heritage as plans by the City Council and the Cultural Industries Quarter Agency (CIQ) got the go ahead on Wednesday.
Cabinet approved proposals to seek funding from Objective One of £276, 000 as the final piece of the jigsaw for a multi-million package to bring back into use key historical and architecturally important buildings.

It will mean key buildings in the Cultural Industries Quarter such as Scotia Works, Butchers Works and Columbia Place will once again be home to business 'start ups' as they were in the nineteenth century. The future of Sheffield Metal Trades buildings such as Leah's Yard, Anglo Works on Trippet Lane and the Stag and Portland Works will also be secured.

Two initiatives - the Heritage Lottery Fund's Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) and the Sheffield Metal Trades Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme (HERS) - are being brought together to restore key buildings in the city centre. The THI scheme will focus on buildings in the Cultural Industries Quarter whereas the HERS scheme covers Metal Trades buildings in city centre conservation areas.

Already £276,000 has been secured from English Heritage over three years for Sheffield's Metal Trades buildings. A fund of £3,926,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Objective One, Regeneration monies, the Local Transport Plan and Section 106 is going into the Townscape Heritage Initiative.

The Council and the CIQ Agency will be attracting developers to renovate and restore these buildings to become homes to new businesses.


http://libplugins.sheffield.gov.uk/uttm/shownews.asp?title=316

Yorkshire Post article

Cutlery works change opposed

Published Date: 17 February 2009 By Martin Slack

CONSERVATIONISTS have launched a campaign to halt a development project which aims to transform a former cutlery works into new apartments and offices. A blueprint has been drawn up for Portland Works in Randall Street, Sheffield, which would see the Grade II listed building overhauled with part of it being demolished.But campaigners from the Victorian Society claim the plans put the historic building under threat, and have called on Sheffield Council to reject the scheme completely. Alex Baldwin, the society's conservation officer, said Portland Works was in the top six per cent of buildings of outstanding architectural and historical interest in the country. He added:

"We are very concerned that the changes needed to create a large number of flats in Portland Works will significantly alter the industrial character of this historic site.
This is a rare survival of the building type and an important part of Sheffield's history. Any alterations must take account of this and this application fails to do so."

According to documents held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the building was initially constructed in the late 1870s as one of Britain's first integrated cutlery works.In the building's listing document it is described as "an extremely good and complete example of a large, purpose-built cutlery works" and "very distinctive to the industrial identity of Sheffield".

It is thought that the first stainless steel to be manufactured in Britain was made at the site and at present the works is still home to several companies which manufacture metal products. According to the Victorian Society, the plans which have been submitted by a company called Portland Co would wipe out much of the historic detail in the building when it is converted into 77 flats. They claim the developers plan to strip out the original staircases, remove windows and doors, and build balconies on the side of the building, significantly altering its appearance. Objections have also been registered to the scheme by several businesses which currently operate from the site and neighbours, who claim that there is no need for the conversion project.In one letter sent to Sheffield Council the owner of a business says:

"We are a tenant at Portland Works, and have been operating from these premises for 51 years. We are a small manufacturing company, employing six people, producing light hand tools mainly for the building trade and are very proud to be able to brand these as made in Sheffield. Many of the businesses operating from Portland Works are still engaged in metalwork trades and as the works were built for such a purpose we do not believe they should even be considered for conversion."

The application has been supported in principle by English Heritage which told Sheffield Council planners:

"We welcome the prospect of this important metal trades complex being brought back into good repair and put to sustaining new uses. However we would urge you to ensure a full inspection is made by your conservation and design colleagues in order to assess the importance of surviving elements and features."

Planning officers at Sheffield Council are still considering the plans and the consultation responses received and will make a decision on the scheme in the next few weeks. Nobody from Portland Co was available to comment on the Victorian Society's objections or give further details about the project.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Cutlery-works-change-opposed.4987000.jp

The Master Cutler Visits

February, 2009. Wigfull Tools and Stuart Mitchell, Portland Works, Sheffield.

At the edge of Sheffield town centre, Portland Works is a survival of the old tenement factory style of premises. Built round a central courtyard, once housing a steam engine, the three storey buildings now house a variety of craftsmen and manufacturers. The Master and Mistress visited Wigfull Tools and were shown round by Andrew Cole, who explained the processes of making chisels, slate rippers, etc. The Master also visited Stuart Mitchell, a cutler making high-quality hunting knives. (Stuart also made the sword blade for the Millennium Sword, which was presented to the Company by Douglas Liversidge, Master Cutler, 1998).
The Master was introduced to the people at Portland Works by Company Freeman, Herbert Housley, who started his working life at the cutlery firm of R.F Mosley’s, which occupied the building before the Second World War. He expressed his worries to the Master, and those of the Works’ occupants, about the site’s possible closure and redevelopment for apartments.

From Cllr Jillian Creasy

1. Portland Works has been invalidated (for the reasons predicted), not withdrawn
2. Invalidated applications are taken off the website (though withdrawn ones are not)
So we can expect it to reappear if and when they show how they intend to treat the interior.
Jillian

NB. The (invalidated) application is avaialble to view however if you follow the links below! This is through doing an address search for the property.

The Full Application: 08/01850/FUL
http://planning.sheffield.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/dcapplication/application_detailview.aspx?KEYVAL=JYUXQGNYFY000&module=P3&hidereturn=trueThe Listed Buildings Application: 08/01851/LBC http://planning.sheffield.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/dcapplication/application_detailview.aspx?KEYVAL=JYUXQVNYFY000&module=P3&hidereturn=true

Material Considerations for Planning Applications

If you wish to object to a Planning Application it is important to know the reasons by which an officer can refuse an application. These are called ‘Material Considerations’ and are as follows:

Material considerations:

• Previous planning decisions (including appeal decisions)
  
• Proposals/policies in the development plan
  
• National guidance
  
• Loss of light/overshadowing
  
• Loss of privacy to a room through distance
  
• Visual amenity
  
• Adequacy of parking/loading/turning
  
• Highway safety, road layout/access
  
• Noise and disturbance resulting from use
  
• Hazardous materials
  
• Traffic generation
  
• Odours
  
• Loss of trees/green space
  
• Landscaping
  
• Impact upon a listed building or a conservation area
  
• Design, appearance and materials
  
• Disabled access
  
• Nature conservation
  
• Archaeology

Many people object for the reasons outlined below, which are not material considerations; these cannot be taken into account by the planning officer when considering an application.

Non-material considerations

• Loss in property value
  
• Loss of a private view
  
• Private disputes between neighbours e.g. land ownership
  
• Restrictive covenants
  
• Fence lines/boundary positions
  
• Personal morals or views about the application
  
• Ownership disputes
  
• Applicant’s motives
  
• Competition
  
• Issues covered by other legislation e.g. Highways Act
  
• Number of objections

It is possible that even if one of the objections made on the grounds of a material consideration is upheld, it will not prevent the proposed development going ahead, but rather a condition will be imposed on the application which must be fulfilled.

Conditions could include things such as stipulating the materials the work has to be made from, the height of the development, or in the case of a business that it can only operate between certain hours in order to control traffic and noise. With a Listed Building it is likely there will be a large number of conditions associated with the development to preserve the character of the development.

Sharrow Community Forum jmu March 2009

p.s this is as far as I understand it- anyone with more knowledge, please feel free to correct this!

Distinctive Sharrow Action Group

Distinctive Sharrow Action Group is a new group that comprises of people living, working and playing in Sharrow. Business people, students, musicians, activists, civic trust members, lecturers, architects, landscape architects, artists and people who are combinations of these things who all have an interest in Sharrow’s buildings, its places, spaces and connections. We want to act to improve it using their shared skills, knowledge and networks.

Our blog is http://sharrowaction.blogspot.com

Please contact us if you wish to be involved!

julia@sharowcf.org.uk

Portland Works Planning Application

It is possible to download all of the drawings, (plans sections elevations), comments and statements that form the application to convert Portland Works into flats from the Sheffield City Council Website www.sheffield.gov.uk/planning or from the links on the post below. Unfortunately they are too large to post here.

I can however send out some hard copies of this information. If you would like a copy, please contact me at julia@sharrowcf.org.uk

Link To Portland Works Planing Application (withdrawn)

This will link you to the application for converting Portland Works into flats... It has currently been invalidated due to incomplete information. I will keep you informed if it is resubmitted.

The Full Application: 08/01850/FUL
http://planning.sheffield.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/dcapplication/application_detailview.aspx?KEYVAL=JYUXQGNYFY000&module=P3&hidereturn=true


The Listed Buildings Application: 08/01851/LBC http://planning.sheffield.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/dcapplication/application_detailview.aspx?KEYVAL=JYUXQVNYFY000&module=P3&hidereturn=true

The key things to note are the case officer, which will be Trevor Sulivan. There will also be a listed buildings officer assigned when the new application is made.

portland works

From Cllr Jillian Creasy

I will contact Trevor Sullivan and head of planning to find out what is supposed to happen when applications are invalidated.

I will contact Richard Caborn to find out what he is actually doing about approaching English Heritage.

I suggested it would be good to get Lib Dems interested as they can influence regen funds (to an extent!) and planing decisions (in as much as they are not strictly quasi judicial!). The people to go for would be

Sylvia.Dunkley@sheffield.gov.uk Cabinet Member for culture, very interested in heritage sites

Sylvia.Anginotti@sheffield.gov.uk Cabinet Member for employment and enterprise

works in the john street triangle