Cannon Brewery Site Being Developed

[butlers 261]

Been vacant a long long time.

Scheme is £140 million and for 500 rental houses.

[butlers 261]

Theres more in the Star..

[SheffieldForum 946]

A game-changer for Sheffield.

It’s been revealed that social impact developers Capital&Centric – who spend £3m a week on regeneration – are set to create a new neighbourhood at the long-abandoned Cannon Brewery in Sheffield.

 

The developer has exchanged contracts to acquire the site that was once home to Stones Brewery but has lain empty since shutting its doors in 1999. An icon of the city’s brewing heritage, the imposing building is a Neepsend landmark. Sitting opposite the popular Cutlery Works food hall, the 4.2 acre site is set to be a major catalyst for regeneration in the area.

 

The site is rich with history. William Stones began brewing in 1847 and in 1868 purchased the lease of Neepsend Brewery, renaming it Cannon Brewery. Stones Bitter, which was brewed on the site from 1948, was popular with steelworkers in the area and became the UK’s best-selling bitter in the 90s.

 

But Sheffielders will have to wait a bit longer to find out what’s in store for the brewery. Capital&Centric are working up ideas for the site, with everything from new homes to food and drink to live music being thrown in the mix. It’s anticipated that the project could see around £200m invested in Sheffield.

 

Tim Heatley, co-founder of Capital&Centric, said:

“It’s an absolutely incredible site with a really eclectic mix of buildings and a shedload of potential. It’s mad that it’s sat abandoned for over 20 years and we can’t wait to get our hands on it. We’re looking forward to working with Homes England and Sheffield City Council to deliver something pioneering.

“It’s honestly the most important site in Neepsend and Kelham Island, if not the city. It’ll be a game changer, kick-starting the wider regeneration of the area, but it’s early days and we’re still working up ideas. It could easily take a few hundred homes, like our Manchester Kampus neighbourhood, but we’re also looking at things like a live music space, workspaces, recording and artists’ studios, mini cinema, café bars, a micro-brewery and markets. Whatever we do, the vision is for Neepsend and Kelham Island to be Sheffield’s most exciting and vibrant district, full of people and with tons of stuff going on.”

The Manchester-based developer is busy restoring the Grade II listed Eyewitness Works and Ceylon Works on Milton Street in Sheffield’s Devonshire Quarter, creating 97 loft apartments and town houses, along with a 900 sq ft café-bar.

 

Eyewitness Works is part of Capital&Centric’s wider vision for Mesters’ Village – a £200m masterplan with over 2,500 homes, makers spaces, café bars, delis and a school.

 

Filming recently wrapped for a new primetime Channel 4 interior design contest, ‘Design Your Dream’, where contestants were each assigned an empty apartment within Eyewitness Works to showcase their unique design talent. The winner of the competition will become the owner of their very own two-bedroom apartment within the historic development. 

 

Capital&Centric recently completed a new owner-occupier community at Crusader Mill and rental garden neighbourhood at Kampus – both in Manchester. They’re now on site delivering new communities at Weir Mill in Stockport and the Goods Yard in Stoke, and are soon to start work at Farnworth in Bolton and the Littlewoods Project in Liverpool.

 

 

More at Capital & Centric here: https://www.capitalandcentric.com/cannon-brewery

 

 

 

[butlers 261]

There can not ever be a time when so much money was being spent in Sheffield 

 

 

 

 

 

[Runningman 148]

I and I am sure many others are asking the question, are there enough folks to occupy all the flat and housing developments that  are under construction and have been constructed in recent months ?

Walk around the city centre and West Bar / Shalesmoor with your head pointing upwards.

How are those Victorian sewers  going to take all that toilet waste ?

[peak4 282]

Good to see it finally being considered for a constructive use; I spent several happy years working there.
I even proved that I can organise a p*** up in a brewery.

[butlers 261]

4 hours ago, Runningman said:

I and I am sure many others are asking the question, are there enough folks to occupy all the flat and housing developments that  are under construction and have been constructed in recent months ?

Walk around the city centre and West Bar / Shalesmoor with your head pointing upwards.

How are those Victorian sewers  going to take all that toilet waste ?

Don valley interceptor sewer runs through the area 

[hackey lad 3,987]

21 hours ago, Runningman said:

I and I am sure many others are asking the question, are there enough folks to occupy all the flat and housing developments that  are under construction and have been constructed in recent months ?

Walk around the city centre and West Bar / Shalesmoor with your head pointing upwards.

How are those Victorian sewers  going to take all that toilet waste ?

What about Schools, nurseries , dentists , GPs ?

[hackey lad 3,987]

What’s schools are in the Neepsend / Kelham catchment area ? 

[peak4 282]

3 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

What’s schools are in the Neepsend / Kelham catchment area ? 

Maps are here
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/schools-childcare/school-catchment-checker

 

[hackey lad 3,987]

13 minutes ago, peak4 said:

Maps are here
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/schools-childcare/school-catchment-checker

 

Thanks for your informative reply . 

[GabrielC 57]

I doubt many of the old brewery buildings will be salvageable the last owners were not know for maintaining their property. It's a strange area for major residential development will the roads around the site be able to cope with the extra traffic? 

 

Maybe it could work but personally it's not a area I would like to live in.