Where did all the empty houses come from to house people that had to move, when whoever demolished suburbs like Grimesthorpe & parts of Pitsmoor etc?
Did they build new estates first, and where ?
What happened to people who were buying or had bought their houses, were they recompensed for their losses & also offered Council Houses?

Skippy,
in the 1950s and 1960s we had a massive building programme in sheffield where huge high rise complexes and tower blocks were built.
Kelvin Flats, Park Hill Flats, Hyde Park Flats, were 3 large complexes.
Also we hade huge estates of council housing. Parson Cross was the largest council estate in europe. Although I think they started building that in the 1930s or 1940s.

In the 19th century, sheffield had much smaller boundaries, and thousands of people lived in poor back to back housing and courtyards, within the bounds of where the inner ring road is today. over many decades these slums were cleared and districts of sheffield appeared as the city crept outwards along its arterial roads.

Sheffield is a bit different, luckily it didn't build lots of motorways/roads to encourage long-distance commutes. Manchester suburbs just go on for miles.

Wythenshawe, Manchester is the biggest council estate in Europe, work on that started in 1926.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/219/219177_from_garden_city_to_europes_biggest_estate. html

Back to Sheffield! We are still waiting for all those new Mosboro Township estates to be built along Donesk Way too.

We have a ramped up, unaffordable housing market, while social housing waiting lists are running at decades long in Sheffield. Whilst that land stands empty?

Absolute planning madness.

Charley
http://www.gmroads.co.uk

Thanks for that info, I left in 1970 but didn't see much demolition going on at that time, I lived on Petre St & at that time there was talk that our houses were going to be demolished, but no one knew when, or where they were going to move people to.
I came on holiday in 92 & saw large allotments of empty space where suburbs & steel companies had been bulldozed, most of the prefab estates had been removed, but I couldn't make out where all the people had gone as all the other places I went to looked just the same, allthough a bit worse for wear.

Thanks for that info, I left in 1970 but didn't see much demolition going on at that time, I lived on Petre St & at that time there was talk that our houses were going to be demolished, but no one knew when, or where they were going to move people to.
I came on holiday in 92 & saw large allotments of empty space where suburbs & steel companies had been bulldozed, most of the prefab estates had been removed, but I couldn't make out where all the people had gone as all the other places I went to looked just the same, allthough a bit worse for wear.


Hi skippy

Where abouts on Petre Street did you live?
Because I used to live near Sutherland Road baths?

Sheffield is a bit different, luckily it didn't build lots of motorways/roads to encourage long-distance commutes. Manchester suburbs just go on for miles.

Wythenshawe, Manchester is the biggest council estate in Europe, work on that started in 1926.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/219/219177_from_garden_city_to_europes_biggest_estate. html

Back to Sheffield! We are still waiting for all those new Mosboro Township estates to be built along Donesk Way too.

We have a ramped up, unaffordable housing market, while social housing waiting lists are running at decades long in Sheffield. Whilst that land stands empty?

Absolute planning madness.

Charley
http://www.gmroads.co.uk

I thought that Parsons Cross was europes largest coucil estate ?

Where did all the empty houses come from to house people that had to move, when whoever demolished suburbs like Grimesthorpe & parts of Pitsmoor etc?
Did they build new estates first, and where ?
What happened to people who were buying or had bought their houses, were they recompensed for their losses & also offered Council Houses?

They built large estates towards the edge of the Sheffield boundaries ,the owners of the houses were compensated but most were tenants who were offered council accomodation, there has been a huge social change since then in housing .In that the Uk has the largest percentage of owner occupiers in Europe,for example Dronfield just south of Sheffield had the biggest private residential estate at that time in Europe completed about 30 years ago which was largely filled by Sheffield born people.. There was also a change in attitude people travelled more and transport improved, and people also became more mobile and wanted more for themselves than their parents had ,and also moved to different areas in the Uk or even emigrated as we both did,I returned after 15 years.

Sheffield is a bit different, luckily it didn't build lots of motorways/roads to encourage long-distance commutes. Manchester suburbs just go on for miles.

Wythenshawe, Manchester is the biggest council estate in Europe, work on that started in 1926.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/219/219177_from_garden_city_to_europes_biggest_estate. html

Back to Sheffield! We are still waiting for all those new Mosboro Township estates to be built along Donesk Way too.

We have a ramped up, unaffordable housing market, while social housing waiting lists are running at decades long in Sheffield. Whilst that land stands empty?

Absolute planning madness.

Charley
http://www.gmroads.co.uk

Smartie I don't think we can call it planning madness. Surely it was political madness that got us where we are today with a previous government wanting to sell off the council houses and a politically correct council that awards single teenage mums a place to rent (usually paid for by you, me and all the other taxpayers) over and above solid working folk who can't afford to buy a place of their own. Does that sound bigotted? Suppose it is really.

Hello Capricorn 61. Up to getting married I lived at Grimesthorpe and spent many happy hours at Sutherland Road Baths, it's where I learned to swim. The last time I stood in that bath, it was empty and I was repairing the machine that was demolishing the place.

I thought that Parsons Cross was europes largest coucil estate ?

Definitely No. Wythenshawe in Manchester has that distinction. Work there did start in 1926, and when I arrived in Manchester in 1951 it was still going on. Basically, in the old days it included the Airport and was about to include a very large hospital. Its population is somewhere in the region of 100,000.