The ruination of Sheffield - St Vincents

[boozy.bird 10]

I agree with you that the inside of your St Georges church has been tastefully done.... however it's very sad to see such a fine building dwarfed by the awful structure at the side of it

[Caz1 10]

Yet another piece of Sheffield history has been swallowed up by the university.

I am under the impression that Sheffield will soon just consist of buildings owned by the university.

The once great city of Sheffield will soon have no historical buildings left. The latest in a long line of casualties is St Vincents catholic church on Solly Street.

In recent years the church has been allowed to get run down and fall in to a state of disrepair. Sheffield city council and the catholic diocese should have pooled resources and renovated this poor old building. The grounds have been used for years as car parking {for a fee} where did all the money go ??

How many more people share my opinion of the loss of our old Sheffield buildings. Do the council get paid well to pass all these plans for the university.

Perhaps someone can give me a good reason for tearing down beautiful old buildings to put up some of the modern monstrosities that Sheffield has acquired in the name of progress.

It's true what you say, the University seems to be able to do whatever they want to Sheffield Buildings. They should be fostering good relations with the people of Sheffield not tearing down all the historic buildings.

[Anna B 1,417]

St George's Church has been rather tastefully adapted into a lecture theatre by the University. You can have a wander around it here.

 

Not a good track record there. Here's the aforementioned church in the context of the truly hideous, Carbuncle Award nominated Diamond.

 

There are some lovely modern buildings. Unfortunately the diamond carbuncle is not one of them. Whoever allowed it past planning should be shot.

[Robin-H 11]

There are some lovely modern buildings. Unfortunately the diamond carbuncle is not one of them. Whoever allowed it past planning should be shot.

 

How it got through planning I'm not entirely sure. Pretty much everybody was strongly against it. I guess money talks..

[samssong 10]

Yet another piece of Sheffield history has been swallowed up by the university.

I am under the impression that Sheffield will soon just consist of buildings owned by the university.

The once great city of Sheffield will soon have no historical buildings left. The latest in a long line of casualties is St Vincents catholic church on Solly Street.

In recent years the church has been allowed to get run down and fall in to a state of disrepair. Sheffield city council and the catholic diocese should have pooled resources and renovated this poor old building. The grounds have been used for years as car parking {for a fee} where did all the money go ??

How many more people share my opinion of the loss of our old Sheffield buildings. Do the council get paid well to pass all these plans for the university.

Perhaps someone can give me a good reason for tearing down beautiful old buildings to put up some of the modern monstrosities that Sheffield has acquired in the name of progress.

Whole historical areas of Sheffield have been abandoned by the council in their rush to supply the big business with sites and permissions to do as they please , this at the expense of the have nots in our town who"s views are never asked for or even considered.

Socialist council my arrrssse.

[Ridgewalk 101]

Personally I wouldn't be happy for my council tax to be used to 'prop up' a church, especially a catholic one

 

 

All churches should be converted into something more socially useful or people friendly

[crookedspire 10]

Theirs going to be even more student apartments to be built , the target area is Garden Street an old tool works is going to have a date with a JCB if the plans get the go ahead.

[tzijlstra 11]

Ah, what would Sheffield Forum be without a recent post bashing the University for something it isn't responsible for. If you actually check the application you can see it is Unite PLC who applied for the contract, that is a private firm. But let's blame the University, after all, St. Vincent's Quarter is such a beautiful and valuable part of the city centre in its current form...

 

PS - where will the street prostitutes and dealers go?

[kaytie 11]

I used to have contract parking at St Vincents. My understanding was that the church closed because the congregation had moved away and a new St Vincent church was built at Crookes . The profit from the car parking was used for this replacement church.

 

Totally agree with the views about that ghastly monstrosity the Eyesore -Sorry Diamond. Utterly hideous!

[samssong 10]

Ah, what would Sheffield Forum be without a recent post bashing the University for something it isn't responsible for. If you actually check the application you can see it is Unite PLC who applied for the contract, that is a private firm. But let's blame the University, after all, St. Vincent's Quarter is such a beautiful and valuable part of the city centre in its current form...

 

PS - where will the street prostitutes and dealers go?

Amsterdam:hihi:

[tzijlstra 11]

Amsterdam:hihi:

 

That would make your visits very expensive samssong!

[Bob Arctor 11]

How it got through planning I'm not entirely sure. Pretty much everybody was strongly against it. I guess money talks..

 

I actually like it. But the reason it will have got through the planning process despite so many objections will be that, as we discovered with campaign to refuse permission to demolish the shops by Devonshire Green, the objections have to relate to technical breaches of planning guidelines. Whether or not people want or don't want it doesn't apparently come into it, which seems extremely undemocratic.