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Sheffield Development Framework
Sheffield Development Framework
Feedback from Southey Owlerton Area Panel – 21.3.06
Comment | Made By | Response |
College sites – is it the aim to get a mix of housing? This would be good and would attract more people to the area. | Yes, there will be a mixture of house types. There will be a wide range of properties from apartments to large family homes. | |
Can the roads around Chaucer accommodate the traffic that would be created by a new District Centre, particularly the supermarket and community hub? Will road closures be necessary? | More detailed work is required about the impact of the proposed new developments in the centre and details about road closures etc. have not yet been examined. When the key elements of the new centre are more certain, the highways issues can be assessed in more detail and proposals to solve arising issues can be identified. There will be further and more detailed community consultation about the Chaucer centre proposals when more detailed plans are available. | |
Why is the flexible use area proposed at Southey? Is this in line with the Centres Strategy? Should this be a Service Centre? We still need to develop a community hub and believe that only if it is designated will EP give us assistance. | Richard Thompson, Chair of Southey Forum | The flexible use area is the best designation to reflect the Centres Strategy which does identify Southey as a service centre. However, in the SDF there is not separate designation for a service centre but the flexible use area will allow all of the proposed uses, including a community hub, for the Southey Centre. |
What are the plans for the future of housing at Barnsley Road and Deerlands Avenue? Will there be any demolition here? Why hasn’t there been a masterplan for this area? | Lindsay TARA | There are currently no plans for any further demolition in Southey Owlerton. The next stage in the process is to fill in the gaps created by the demolition that has already taken place, some of which is along Deerlands Avenue. |
Question re Stanley Works at Ecclesfield - Why is the area shown as Housing as this is loss of employment Land - is there an alternative employment area? Should we keep this for employment? | The site is designated as part of a Fringe Business and Industry Area in the Unitary Development Plan. The preferred land uses for redevelopment of the site are therefore Offices/Light industry (B1), General Industry (B2) and Warehousing and Distribution (excluding open storage) (B8). However, Housing (C3) is listed as an acceptable use in principle under the relevant policy (IB6). Its acceptability in practice is subject to compliance with policy (IB9), which sets out the conditions that the development proposal has to conform to before it can be acceptable. The owners in partnership with the previous occupiers have predominantly marketed the site for housing development, even though uses other than preferred uses would contravene the dominance condition in policy IB9. This condition aims to ensure that preferred uses remain dominant within industrial areas. A recent planning application for housing has recently been withdrawn (05/03368/FUL) after detailed discussions with the proposed developers and a subsequent planning application has been submitted (06/00422/FUL) and is still being considered. An appeal has been lodged on the first application for non determination within 8 weeks. Policy IB9 will continue to be applied until the Sheffield Development Framework is adopted. Landowners are seeking higher land values on disposal of their property and are disregarding the preferred uses because the difference in value is significant. The owners/developers argue that there is no market for industrial use in that area as the infrastructure/Buildings are not up to modern standards. Officers have been concerned at this trend which has led to the Morrison’s development and several housing developments. Further housing / acceptable use development in this area would harm the dominance of industry and employment generating uses in the area. The provisional Sheffield Development Framework Proposals Map designates the site as a business and industry area. The City Policies emerging Option EB4 governs preferred, acceptable and unacceptable land uses in Business and Industry Areas. The preferred uses are Non office business development, General industry and Storage and Distribution (B8 excluding open storage). Housing is listed as an unacceptable use. Any development proposals for acceptable land uses would be subject to the Emerging Option EB7 which aims to maintain the dominance of industry in business and industry areas. The intention at this point is clearly to resist further development of acceptable land uses where they would threaten the dominance of industry and to eliminate the threat from housing development by listing it as unacceptable. |
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