I've been reading all the posts regarding the councils decision to reject the 32 storey apartment block and i think we should all relax a little.

Whether you believe the council's words or not, the scheme will be re-assessed and hopefully re-submitted and accepted to a better design. Let's all wait and see the final outcome before giving up on our city.

I for one think the city centre has never looked so good. It's encouraging to see so many cranes building exciting new buildings.

I know LOTS of people who live outside our city who rave about how much they love coming here. I was even talking to some guys in south of france recently who said the same.

Lots of you go on about Leeds/Manchester being so great, but i think both cities are pretty filthy chav infested places. Sure some parts are nice like all cities, so why make the constant comparisons with Sheffield?

So let's all just chill and show some encouragement. I think we're slowly getting there.

Does anyone agree or is it the calm before the storm?


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I pretty much agree. the trouble is by the time they get all the other bits of the city centre done it will be 20 years and we will be pulling down all the cheaply built luxury flats that are like a plague on Sheffield at the moment

Errr, no they won't. That is a patently ridiculous thing to say for all the reasons that have been espoused many many times before.

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can't disagree more.

the council has done its upmost to do nothing since I can remember.

I remember a few years ago there was a privately funded plan to turn the derilict area around the Leadmill into a Covent Graden type square. Everyone was for it including the police.

The council turned it down as they said it would encourage drinking.

So its still unused and run down.

well done.

The council has crippled this city for years and will continue to do so.

So to summarise, people who live outside this city like the city more than us who live here.

Probably not such a bad thing actually.

Hear hear, Tony. The Five Year Plan (title may differ!) to completely regenerate the city centre by concentrating all the demolition, (re)building, cleaning-up, and sorting out the roads, all in a very short space of time is very admirable.

Yes, it looks like a mess at the moment. But it will all be done in a couple of years. If left without the strong arm of a coordinated development plan it might well have taken the 20 years some people fear.

It isn't just the city centre either. Go up to Brook Hill (University) roundabout: unrecognisable from a year ago. Old Jessop service buildings pulled down with new University block already topped out. Old Uni admin bulidings on Favell Road and Leavygreave Road cleared down. St Philips Road flats demolished... Can't wait to see what'll spring up!

And, yeah, there are a few pockets of land here and there still awaiting redevlopment, and the runs of new shop frontage on West Street under the new apartments have yet to be let, but concentrate on the good stuff and you'll find a lot to be proud of.