Longcol Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 5 hours ago, AndrewC said: People heading to Novotel from the north of Arundel Gate will be signposted to go down to the Furnival Sq roundabout and make a U-turn. I wonder if this plan for Furnival Square (minus roundabout) which wouldn't allow U-turns is still current. https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/connectingsheffield/201112-TCF MAPS_Furnival Gate.pdf From these fairly recent proposals. https://connectingsheffield.commonplace.is/en-GB/proposals/city-centre-proposals/step1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ads36 Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 those images are basically concept sketches, i will be *very* surprised if it ends up looking like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 24 minutes ago, ads36 said: those images are basically concept sketches, i will be *very* surprised if it ends up looking like that... So would I - it will be done as cheaply as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planner1 Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 44 minutes ago, RollingJ said: So would I - it will be done as cheaply as possible. What evidence do you base that on? Public space schemes in the city centre must use a range of high quality materials and street furniture that are set by the council. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 16 hours ago, Longcol said: I wonder if this plan for Furnival Square (minus roundabout) which wouldn't allow U-turns is still current. https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/connectingsheffield/201112-TCF MAPS_Furnival Gate.pdf From these fairly recent proposals. https://connectingsheffield.commonplace.is/en-GB/proposals/city-centre-proposals/step1 You make a good point - they are still active proposals as far as I'm aware but do seem to contradict each other. The bus gate plan is more recent which would suggest that's the one to take at face value - the Furnival Square plan will maybe be tweaked to maintain some element of the roundabout there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 9 minutes ago, Planner1 said: What evidence do you base that on? Public space schemes in the city centre must use a range of high quality materials and street furniture that are set by the council. Knew you'd be jumping on this - so the planted-up rubbish receptacles we see around Surrey St/Pinstone St/Fargate are high-quality, along with those ugly concrete blocks strewn al over the city centre to no useful effect ? Give over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planner1 Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 18 minutes ago, RollingJ said: Knew you'd be jumping on this - so the planted-up rubbish receptacles we see around Surrey St/Pinstone St/Fargate are high-quality, along with those ugly concrete blocks strewn al over the city centre to no useful effect ? Give over! Fargate is about to start a renovation process which will feature high quality public realm similar to other areas in the city centre. The planters may be temporary and the concrete blocks are I believe to prevent terrorist attacks as others have mentioned. The permanent paving, seating, street furniture etc you see in the city centre is undeniably high quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 5 minutes ago, Planner1 said: Fargate is about to start a renovation process which will feature high quality public realm similar to other areas in the city centre. The planters may be temporary and the concrete blocks are I believe to prevent terrorist attacks as others have mentioned. The permanent paving, seating, street furniture etc you see in the city centre is undeniably high quality. I am aware Fargate is 'about to start a renovation process' - what it will look like is anybody's guess. The planters may 'be temporary', but who thought they were suitable in the first place?. As I have said previously re: the concrete blocks, I haven't seen such a proliferation of them in the city/town centres of any of the places I have been, and from my observation of them when I have been into Sheffield centre, they appear to be breeding at an alarming rate. Why is Sheffield city centre such an attractive 'target for terrorists', compared to say Nottingham, Leicester, Leeds - to keep it local - I could mention places much further away. The problem with the 'high quality' permanent paving in the centre is that it appears to develop black spots when it is dug up, for whatever reason, and replaced with tarmac - I thought the rules were that it had to be relaid like-for-like? As an aside, some of this paving is lethal when it gets wet - yes it looks nice, but is it safe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 (edited) Bump. This is on front of the Star today https://www.thestar.co.uk/business/arundel-gate-new-bus-gate-rakes-in-ps36000-in-a-month-for-sheffield-city-council-4213364 Personally got no issue with this as its an idiot tax on idiot motorists who are too dim to read road signs/markings. I am sure we will all agree.... Edited July 12, 2023 by HeHasRisen 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 3 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said: Bump. This is on front of the Star today https://www.thestar.co.uk/business/arundel-gate-new-bus-gate-rakes-in-ps36000-in-a-month-for-sheffield-city-council-4213364 Personally got no issue with this as its an idiot tax on idiot motorists who are too dim to read road signs/markings. I am sure we will all agree.... Horrible little man . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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