The Heart of Sheffield’s City Centre Regeneration
Situated 170 miles north of the capital and in the foothills of the Peak District National Park, is a city, which has seen vast industrial and cultural changes throughout the latter half of the 21st century.
huge obstacle for the future progression of Sheffield’s city centre. However, key agencies within the city began to promote Sheffield as a creative city of culture, which brought a new legacy for development.
The decline of the steel industry in the 1980’s had severe consequences in terms of investment, which left the majority of the city with areas of neglect due to hardly any development taking place between 1980 and 1985.
Early investment in the Cultural Industrial Quarter was seen as a pioneering scheme, which many other UK cities have since followed. An increase in people’s disposable income for leisure and decentralisation of government bodies provided the means for improving the cities image to benefit residents and visitors.
Political, economical and social pressures aligned to form a
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