2.2 Sheffield Today

Sheffield City Centre Masterplan 2000

The Masterplan, prepared by Koetter Kim and Associates in 2000, sets out ‘a clear and unambiguous strategy for Sheffield to regain its status as one of Europe’s leading cities’. It was underpinned by a series of separate studies including a baseline study, an economic study, a land-use and property market study of the city centre retail environment and a strategy for transport and movement in the city centre.

Based on these studies the Masterplan offered a comprehensive strategy for change which maps out the economic, physical, social and cultural conditions required to provide the basis for sustainable investment and growth over the next 10-15 years. It also proposes a programme for the strategic and systematic improvement of the public realm and civic spaces and the development of principles for the neighbourhoods and specific sites within a coherent framework.

There are 4 underlying objectives at the core of the Masterplan:

• Building a new high technology based economy;
  
• Creating a vibrant city as a centre for learning, culture, retail, business, leisure and living;
  
• Improving accessibility to the city centre by all modes of transport;
  
• Celebrating the public realm.

The document identifies a variety of key strategic projects (refer to P.37) which should be implemented to ensure the successful regeneration of the city:

• Sheaf Valley E-campus;
  
• New Retail Quarter;
  
• Heart of the City Project;
  
• Castlegate, Victoria Quays and Riverside;
  
• City Hall/Barkers Pool;
  
• Railway Station Gateway & Sheaf Square;
  
• Integrated Transport Strategy;
  
• Celebration of the Public Realm;
  
• Park Hill Flats.

These projects will help Sheffield achieve its fundamental objective – the creation of a vibrant city economy - which would be sustained by ensuring that Sheffield remains a step ahead of its competitors and anticipating future trends.

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