Where does Sheffield go now

[panzer1]

Ricky there has been loads of regeneration, all of the wrong type. There are more one way streets, bus gates/lanes, no entry signs than you can shake a stick at. If you get into Sheffield the cost of parking is stupid, hence people go to MH. Leeds straight into the city centre then reasonable parking, clean pedestrian shopping areas with hardly a cheap tacky shop in sight. Even Barnsley rough and ready that it is still outweighs Sheffield.

[Mister M]

I don't believe Sheffield is 'stuck in the seventies' as the above member puts it.

 

There's ben lots of re-generation all over Sheffield and it's become modernised.

 

I agree. Tudor Square, the Winter Gardens are good examples - but I guess it's a case of 'the grass is always greener'....

[panzer1]

MH is part of Sheffield but the boundary with Rotherham runs on Tinsley viaduct, that how near it was to being part of Rotherham

[andrejuan]

Back on topic.

 

For me, living and working in Sheffield (a city I love).

 

It is becoming too difficult to do business locally. Trying to drive

around the area is now too time consuming to be profitable.

Congestion is rife due to poor road planning.

Parking is a joke anywhere close to the town centre.

 

The Planning Dep't are afraid to approve anything adventurous or ground-breaking, unless it's for the university (thank the Lord for the foresight of the Uni.)

 

Public transport needs to be improved beyond recognition, and social housing needs investment fit for todays demographic.

 

After saying all that, it would take me days to list all the stuff the city

gets right, but it needs to be more competitive and better than the competition on infrastructure because no other northern city has the benefit of Sheffield folk, our greatest asset.

[Nijinsky]

Yes, shame Sheffield couldn`t have been part of the BBC gig. It`s all Manchester these days, almost an obsession with the media.

[Mister M]

It's also sad that a city's strength is seen as which shops it has. There must be more to life!

[panzer1]

Mr M why else go into the city centre. During the day you either work there or shop there. At night people go into town to eat or drink, cinemas are dirty and unwelcoming, what else is there to go into town for. That is what governs what sort of people go into the city centre and hence what shops/companies invest there, so yes the sum of the city centre is the shops. Other areas of the city are residential or industrial and have different criteria for who/what goes there.

[Nijinsky]

Lack of media hype and lack of self promotion are both factors.

 

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So I say, take Rotherham, warts an all. Hire some promotional experts and make sure the local council have the drive and ambition not to get left behind.

[Owethemnowt]

Ah .................... the tag line: 'they will vote in Labour again'........

 

Good old Rotherham then.

 

The Reds.

 

Let's just await the rest of the country falling into line and we can all wish good old Dave and Nick and fond farewell for all their hard work.

 

I quite enjoyed being ruled by my lord and master from Eton. Dave, who despite the same priviledged upbringing as his new mate Nick, new just how to communicate with us, the common people.

 

Was that a Jarvis Cocker observation? Not surprising as he was brought up in Sheffield and spent his childhood forming the same socialist impressions as Nick, also a Sheffielder, well sort of.

 

I remember Macmillan who told us we'd never had it so good. And dear Margaret who not only told us there was no such thing as community but made sure she single handedly dismantled much of it; where their was a pit any way.

 

So let's vote Dave.

 

We need bankers creating wealth and their bonus incentives to ensure it. We need a re-vamped un-recogniseable NHS so I don't have to wait up to 8 hours to be seen, like I have repeatedly during the last 4 years. And finally, who really wants to send their kids to the local school for a decent education because all schools have good teachers and good results?

 

Vote Tory and know your place ........... it's somewhere near poverty line, zero hours contract, unaffordable housing and a life of debt.

 

Deaf ears I fear..........

[sheff71]

Lack of media hype and lack of self promotion are both factors.

 

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So I say, take Rotherham, warts an all. Hire some promotional experts and make sure the local council have the drive and ambition not to get left behind.

 

As a first step, you should see if Mr Blair fancies taking over as leader of Sheffield CC - he knows how to lead a war effort.

 

The thought of thousands of Sheffielders led by our MPs and councillors, heading down the Rotherway on their way to taking out the Rotherham Council infrastructure HQ (probably just a phone box) would be quite amusing.