Has anyone seen the plans for the new Endcliffe Student Village?
The demolition of the ugly 1960s blocks will be no loss at all and there is a need to improve student accomodation. BUT......
There seems to be a presumption that first year students don't have cars (If they do, local streets are going to get very congested with parked cars)
And there seems to be every possibility that The Hub leisure complex may apply for late drinks and music licenses to cater for students (and conferences in vacation time)
The prospect of Club nights at Encliffe into the early hours with "music" thudding over the still night air is not very appealing.
There's a Students Union on Western Bank for that, not to mention any number of city centre clubs.
I suspect that some at the Uni. can already hear the crinkle of money going into the tills.
I trust that the planners will insist that any licences restrict opening hours to those currently applicable to pubs

It's probably done and dusted .Sheff council will let Sheff Uni do anything they want as long as they wet their beak somewhere along the way.

"Can we have building permission on hanover way?"
"Ok, If you clean up the area round the old Jessops"

The proposal for the student village is superb! It's long overdue, and a lot of hard work has gone into it.

The University is (IIRC) the 3rd largest company in Yorkshire, so of course they carry weight. I also know that they have put in a massive amount of work into the planning and design.

It won't suit everyone, but nothing ever does.

Sorry to butt in - what does IIRC mean?

If I Recall Correctly.
The 3rd largest business in Yorkshire versus a few hundred local residents not wanting extended drinking and "music" into the early morning hours. I wonder who the Council will side with?

The thing is Ned

The plans will Probably go through. It will have all been planned out and pushed and promoted,by people who dont even have to live near it.. People who dont have to wake up to find traffic cones on their cars,or for sale signs through their hedge. People who dont have to listen to fire works going of for 3 months of the year.

'fraid the men in the Ivory Towers have probably already had had the wink form the council.

It's fair comment about noise and disturbance, but you need to voice those concerns - they are listening - and this proposal is trying very hard to try to address them. It is inevitable that the students will be there, and that students will always behave like students, but they Uni is interested in being a good neighbour.

Did any of you go to the public exhibition last week at Sorby Hall?

There were VERY senior University people there, the architects and the town planners, all ready for a verbal mugging.

Apparently the feedback was great.

Did you take the time to give yours?

Originally posted by Tony


It won't suit everyone, but nothing ever does.

Perhaps not, but the Residences Strategy does very little for students or the community in my opinion. As a student, it is very clear to me from the univerisity's lack of interest in students' points of view that they have no intention of even finding out what we want. It is ill thought-out to say the least, which is why during the election campaign every single candidate for Sheffield Hallam spoke out against the plans.

The university does not exactly have a good track record with putting up buildings. Take the Arts Tower, a mess which the people of Sheffield would like to see gone and which those who must use the building feel even more strongly about. Then there's the Alfred Denny building on the same side of the road, a building with massive sound problems as the architects had not taken into consideration the sound transmitted from vehicles on western bank. The psychology building was unanimously described by residents, students and staff as being a sinister looking building under research conducted by the School of Architecture. The Dainton Building recently replaced one of the university's own monstrosities from the past. And now, attention has turned to the Halls.

Thirty years ago I suspect the university was fighting all the same battles on accomodation on Endcliffe that it is fighting today. I wonder whether they thought then that their efforts would be torn down so quickly; and I wonder how long it will be before these new buildings too will be demolished, classed as unsuitable because they weren't thought through in the first place.

Students don't want one massive student village. Neither do the residents. It is a testament to the university's arrogance and apparent "special" relationship with the council that they are pressing on regardless.