Plans have been released today for the new Sheffield Retail Quarter, set to open in 2019. The plans will transform the Barkers Pool, Pinstone Street and Moor Head area, whilst preserving the historic character of the City. Plans can be seen at the Town Hall all this week. The Retail Quarter will include a range of up market and Independent shops, new offices, homes and restaurants.
Concerns raised by Rotherham Older People’s Forum and Age UK about community safety have lead to them working in partnership with South Yorkshire Police and the Post Office. The scheme will see a Police Community Support Officer designed to a Post Office to give reassurance to those using the services.
An exhibition that is encouraging young people to take up careers in Manufacturing, Engineering and Aviation took place at Magna. One of the projects based in East Yorkshire has people aged between 11 and 18 years old building a plane which they will then learn to fly.
The National Union of Farmers is encouraging people to buy British diary products to help support the local farming industry which is suffering due to low sales prices.
Sheffield is set to have its own Chinese Quarter which will host a residential and retail area, a Plaza as well as a business incubator which will encourage Chinese business to come and be based in the City.
Recycle Bikes is a not for profit, one stop shop for people who are interested in bikes, they recycle old ones, loan bikes out and also donate bikes to projects across Africa. You can learn basic road and maintenance skills and get spare parts for your vintage bike.
Sheffield is on its way to getting more powers over is transport, business and housing infrastructure as Whitehall hands over more power to local councils
A turf cutting ceremony was held to celebrate construction work beginning on an extension to the Hillsborough College which will be specialising in Journalism and the creative industries.
Senior Lecturer in Economics Jonathan Perraton explains how some of the measures in the The Autumn Statement will affect the people of Sheffield.
People demonstrated outside the Town Hall by banging pots and pans to bring attention to areas that they felt The Autumn Statement did not tackle.