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State of the city centre
The Star, Sheffield
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14/09/2023
What's happening in Sheffield city centre and you excited for its future?
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My name is Ben Miskell, I'm chair of the Transport Regeneration and Climate
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Committee at Sheffield City Council and I'm responsible for regeneration in the
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city centre. Behind me you can see some of the wonderful things that are
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happening on Fargate. It is changing and as you can see from people that are really
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enthusiastic about it. At the moment we can see the boards at the back but
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actually we are going to have some sustainable urban drainage systems right
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in front running through Fargate which will mean it looks absolutely wonderful
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the greatest green scheme. Above the shops we are going to be bringing other
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uses and that means office space, workers, people who are using this space and
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bringing it much more back to life. So over the next six months we're going to
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see a very different type of Fargate.
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The plans for the future look pretty good. I'm quite excited as to what Sheffield will look like
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maybe three or four years down the line. I think in the middle it's a pretty grim place
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for all sorts of reasons. It looks like a building site because it is a building site
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with empty shops and so on. So I'm just, I'm sort of quitting my teeth and just hoping to get
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through it and that things will be better in a few years time.
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It's terrible. It's really bad. It's been neglected.
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The council are neglecting people's needs of getting into city centre with cars and things.
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There's nowhere to park without it being expensive.
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What about the revamp of Fargate?
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Well I've not took a lot to notice. If it looks okay when it's done, yeah that'll be okay.
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But I don't know what to plan.
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I'm on Charles Street and Cambridge Street, right in the heart of the city development
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and it really is wonderful. We are starting to see new businesses come here, new cafes
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and actually new residential developments. Just at the back of me some of my friends have just moved in.
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It is a wonderful apartment and that's part of the wider story here.
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We want to make sure that city centre is a sustainable neighbourhood for people to come and live
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and spend money in shops and cafes and local businesses.
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And we want 20,000 more people to come and live in the city centre.
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And the benefit of that is it also protects the greenbelt space across the city as well.
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It's improving, that's the main thing. It's improving, getting better, getting there.
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That's what you want to see isn't it?
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You know when you're born you think you're healthy.
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You want to get better and better. That's the main thing.
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So you can see at the moment that you've got new retailers like Sostrom & Green that have opened up.
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You've got Marmaduke's and that's its second cafe in the city centre.
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And also we're looking out towards Pound Park which is a really brilliant space for families to come and enjoy.
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And we want to make sure that the city centre is a place that people can live, a sustainable neighbourhood
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but a great place for families to come and enjoy.
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Also you've got a food court that's going to be open as well
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and so many other exciting things that are happening in the city centre.
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