Regeneration and Large Schemes
Sheffield is experiencing an unprecedented period of confidence and growth with large private investments supported by substantial funding from the European Union, Yorkshire Forward and English Partnerships, as well as the renewal of many inner city residential neighbourhoods.
The City Development Division (CDD) forms part of the Council’s Development Service. It provides a single focus for the funding, planning, design, programming and delivery of major physical economic regeneration schemes within the City. It has played a key role in the flagship projects which have changed the image of the City in the last decade.
The Division provides a central point of contact within Development Services for economic and urban regeneration initiatives. This requires close liaison with Creative Sheffield and other key partner Agencies like Yorkshire Forward, Objective One Partnership and English Partnerships to ensure that Sheffield maximises inward investment opportunities, and that planning processes operate efficiently and promptly where major regeneration projects are submitted.
Economic Regeneration work is currently focused on the three Priority Regeneration Areas of Sheffield.
CDD is working to ensure greater alignment between its regeneration strategies for the Priority Areas and those for deprived Inner City neighbourhoods,which are generally led by other agencies, often in Neighbourhoods or the community sector. CDD is now working on a number of major projects in Inner City Social regeneration areas such as Burngreave, Netherthorpe and Upperthorpe and Park Hill.
CDD leads on the development of Master Plans and Action Plans for appropriate parts of the Priority Regeneration Areas which give opportunities for local consultation and often form the basis of Local Development Framework policy, working closely with the Forward and Area Planning Section.
Where appropriate, officers provide the lead or client role to major publicly funded schemes and developments. Officers also ensure the co-ordination of statutory functions, funding packages, support services, planning permissions, compulsory purchase orders, road closure orders, etc. Occasionally they carry out tasks or take on roles that don’t neatly fall into the remit of a specific service but are considered important for regeneration. For example assisting with gathering data (photographs and recording flood line) to help map sites / areas where floods occurred recently.
Where appropriate, officers provide the lead or client role to major publicly funded schemes and developments. Officers also ensure the co-ordination of statutory functions, funding packages, support services, planning permissions, compulsory purchase orders, road closure orders, etc. Occasionally they carry out tasks or take on roles that don’t neatly fall into the remit of a specific service but are considered important for regeneration. For example assisting with gathering data (photographs and recording flood line) to help map sites / areas where floods occurred recently.
To learn more about our projects, please visit the City Development Division Projects page.