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Will Sheffield Ever catch up with Leeds/Manchester?


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Do they?:huh:

 

The centre of Leeds is a right pig to park in since they bulldozed the big car park by the markets.

 

Not only was it easy to access, but it was cheap and IIRC was at one point free after 6ish.

Now you pay through the nose for NCP.

 

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Oh go on name some corrupt officials :rolleyes: you may think in your opinion some are useless but your view is subjective

 

Depends on your view of corrupt??

 

Case in point the 'planning team' who last summer went to Cannes to a 'planning convention' on the premise of finding someone to sort out the mess the moor is.

 

The sum total they brought back was 'some good leads'.

They're going back again this year :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

 

Sorry, but thats simply not good enough.

 

You don't need to go on holiday, to find a contractor to take on a large building project like the moor - if the council got their **** in order all the big contractors would be beating their door down trying to get the job.

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I drove to Manchester on Sunday and while heading into the city centre i realised that the issue with Sheffield is that its built in a valleys which give the impression of being quite small.

 

Manchester by size is not that much different from Sheffield but as its mostly flat, you cans see for miles and it looks vast. Wioth Sheffield city centre being in a valley expansion is going to be limited and really is only about 1 mile sqaure which is tiny compared to other cities.

 

Also, Sheffielder's have always taken this with pride that they are different from other cities and sometimes that can come across as resistant to change or just stubborn maybe sheffield should embrace its uniqueness.

 

Maybe its time that Sheffield just accepted that its a collection of inner city Towns and use that as its advantage.

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Is Sheffield always going to be the poor Yorkshire cousin of Leeds and way behind Manchester?

 

As someone Whos wife is from Sheffield I can never help but think that Sheffield whilst a very nice city with many good points always seems to be some what "behind the times!

 

Are you here again?

 

Ok that's another to iggyland

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I also love Sheffield for all sorts of reasons, but feel it is falling further and further behind Leeds, a city of similar size.

 

Sheffield doesn't really promote itself properly, and seems singularly lacking in a big idea. It's planning department takes so long to grant permissions that it constantly misses the zeitgeist. The idea that it tries to promote itself as the 'City of Sport' would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

 

Leeds on the other hand has managed to attract prestigious Arts companies like Northern Ballet and Opera North, and is now hoping to become 'City of Culture' in 2016

 

Shopping is also an issue. While just about adequate, it is nothing to write home about, and lacks any stores of note, nor does it encourage small quirky individual, destination shops, although it is working hard to improve the city centre - but what's the point if there's nothing to come into town for?

 

Rather than going on jaunts to Cannes, it might like to study how other, more successful councils operate, and take a leaf out of their book.

 

If this great 'Northern Hub' mega city (made up of 3 or 4 smaller cities,) ever gets going, Sheffield had better pull its finger out and get in there, or it will be sidelined for good.

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Yes unless we can conjure up another million or so living within a ten mile radius.

 

Being forward thinking doesn't rely on greater numbers.

 

Networked and super fast: welcome to Bristol, the UK’s smartest city

 

Forget Silicon Roundabout; Bristol is fast gaining a reputation as the UK’s most technologically smart urban environment, a place that is trying to understand how the cities of the future can exploit the vast realms of data they will collect when even the most humdrum devices, from electricity meters to car number plate recognition systems, are wired together in what is commonly referred to as “the internet of things.” The buzz around Bristol – the only major English city outside London to make a positive net contribution to the national economy and which boasts the largest silicon chip industry outside Silicon Valley – is palpable.

 

A report released last week found that Bristol had the strongest creative industries sector of any large urban area in the UK, excluding London.

 

“There’s not really anything like it anywhere else,” Meineck said of the city’s technological spirit. “Maybe there are small pockets across London, but in Bristol it seems like the whole city is networked.”

 

It helps that the city’s independent mayor, George Ferguson, is a technology evangelist. “I believe that the best cities are the ones that embrace change and are prepared to look for new solutions to the great urban challenges, such as climate change, mobility, energy supply and caring for our growing older population,” he said. “Of course, in trying new things we shall sometimes make mistakes, but by working closely with business, with academia and, of course, with citizens, we can learn together in our live urban lab.”

 

So far most of the projects backed by the city council have been small-scale pilots involving smart meters. However, from next spring an old cable television network – which the council bought for small change nearly a decade ago and which, thanks to the addition of new superfast fibre, can support colossal data speeds of terabits per second – will turn the city into a giant test bed.

 

LINK

 

“I believe that the best cities are the ones that embrace change".

 

Well that's Sheffield out of the running then.

 

 

Population of Bristol: 428,100

Population of Sheffield: 551,800

 

(Both figures dated 2011).

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Leeds on the other hand has managed to attract prestigious Arts companies like Northern Ballet and Opera North, and is now hoping to become 'City of Culture' in 2016

 

Sheffield Theatres named best outside London

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-20892038

 

Rather than going on jaunts to Cannes, it might like to study how other, more successful councils operate, and take a leaf out of their book.

 

Sheffield is sharing a stand with Leeds there alongside other cities. I guess we should just not bother ?

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/business/business-news/cannes-do-attitude-as-sheffield-city-region-heads-to-property-fair-1-7100438

 

As for the rest of the thread, can't we just have a naysayers megathread on Sheffield and all the tosh similar to what is posted in this thread be put in there ? Surely, If you don't like it here, why don't you just leave ? :wave:

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As an outsider Sheffield to me is a very parochial town which doesn't embrace changes and is crippled by its past. It hasn't moved with the times and terrible planning decisions along with over-zealous bent parking wardens has only drove businesses away to real cities like Leeds.

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As an outsider Sheffield to me is a very parochial town which doesn't embrace changes and is crippled by its past. It hasn't moved with the times and terrible planning decisions along with over-zealous bent parking wardens has only drove businesses away to real cities like Leeds.

 

The grass is always greener in Leeds too, try asking the good folk of Leeds how good their City is, the YEP did.

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/yep-survey-how-you-would-tackle-problems-facing-leeds-1-6916632

I suspect if the Star asked the people of sheffield, the comments would be the same.

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