Park Hill Flats Regeneration (Urban Splash)

[Bladerunner]

Nice, though the garden sheds are a bit small

[cloud32]

I love Urban Splash projects like that, they're so innovative other develpopers should take notes from them

[Aylett 67]

Whatever else you might think of the redevelopment of Park Hill, at least it makes these flats more welcoming and less Stalinist in appearance. However, the design must have been good as they have outlived the horrors that used to stand behind them.

[TakeMeHigher]

Go and have a look at what they are like in real life.

[Steel City Suburb]

Noticed a lot of red stickers on windows saying 'sold'.

[Irish Blood English Heart]

Read on Sheffield forum an article interviewing Urban Splash that something around 40-45 had been sold of which around 19 were to private buyers and 24 or so to housing associations.

[Aylett 67]

Anything which breathes new life into Park Hill has to be good. If it moves on from being a desert of poverty and crime, then good. It does prove that if looked after correctly and there is a bigger mix of residents, these places can work.

[Aylett 67]

There is an interesting e book by a punk musician who lived in Kelvin, Hyde Park and Park Hill in the eighties and nineties. For all outsiders loathed and feared these estates, he said the Kelvin Flats had a good community spirit and there wasn't that much crime.

[Irish Blood English Heart]

Aye I enjoyed reading his stories online.

[PaulP]

Originally Posted by Aylett 67

There is an interesting e book by a punk musician who lived in Kelvin, Hyde Park and Park Hill in the eighties and nineties. For all outsiders loathed and feared these estates, he said the Kelvin Flats had a good community spirit and there wasn't that much crime.

Yeah, apart from dropping tellys and other appliances from the upper floors on to the roads below.

[judd newto]

Originally Posted by PaulP

Yeah, apart from dropping tellys and other appliances from the upper floors on to the roads below.

It was raining telly,s every day ,You dare not walk out of the door in case a telly dropped on your bonse.
If not telly,s it was pisss pots and shit filled nappy,s ,and then there was the drug adicts and alco,s shouting at every passer by as they walked by on their way to the Bingo .
Hell on Earth was Sheffield in them days not like now with all the inteligenti in their smart suits and pencils behind a well scrubbed ear spewing forth their words of wisdom to any one daft enough to listen.

[Aylett 67]

Originally Posted by judd newto

It was raining telly,s every day ,You dare not walk out of the door in case a telly dropped on your bonse.
If not telly,s it was pisss pots and shit filled nappy,s ,and then there was the drug adicts and alco,s shouting at every passer by as they walked by on their way to the Bingo .
Hell on Earth was Sheffield in them days not like now with all the inteligenti in their smart suits and pencils behind a well scrubbed ear spewing forth their words of wisdom to any one daft enough to listen.

I do remember a taxi on City Rd having a near miss with a 26 inch black and white television in the eighties. I suppose the lift was broken and they couldn't be bothered to heft the old Bush down the stairs, so the window was easier.
Actually Park Hill features briefly in Threads, where the timber yard is besieged by people wanting wood to build nuclear shelters.

[judd newto]

Originally Posted by Aylett 67

I do remember a taxi on City Rd having a near miss with a 26 inch black and white television in the eighties. I suppose the lift was broken and they couldn't be bothered to heft the old Bush down the stairs, so the window was easier.
Actually Park Hill features briefly in Threads, where the timber yard is besieged by people wanting wood to build nuclear shelters.

A black and white one?and it was thrown as far as City Road! A new Olympic event in the offing.
Oh iv,e got it the Snooker was on at the time.

[Aylett 67]

Originally Posted by judd newto

A black and white one?and it was thrown as far as City Road! A new Olympic event in the offing.
Oh iv,e got it the Snooker was on at the time.

This is what the paper said, but they might have got it wrong, and my memory is fading with old age, but a taxi definitely had a near miss with a television at Hyde Park.

[Rational Plan]

Article in Saturday Telegraph magazine on the Flats. I thought it was fairly even handed. The pictures mainly seemed to try an capture the whole building from a distance, so did not get a real impression of impact of redevelopment.

i did not realise they had sold so few flats as of yet.

[cheaperthrillz]

Originally Posted by Aylett 67

There is an interesting e book by a punk musician who lived in Kelvin, Hyde Park and Park Hill in the eighties and nineties. For all outsiders loathed and feared these estates, he said the Kelvin Flats had a good community spirit and there wasn't that much crime.

Yep well worth a read, a friend of mine knows Pete well, anyhow here they are for you all to enjoy

Kelvin Flats - Part 1 -

http://www.freewebs.com/lifeonkelvin...LVIN%20PDF.pdf

RIP Mozaz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rRe_VkT0k8


Hyde Park Flats - Part 2

http://hydeparkflats.webs.com/chapterone.htm

Park Hill Flats - Part 3

http://parkhillflats.webs.com/chapterone.htm

Epilogue

http://parkhillflats.webs.com/epilogue.htm

[eighty4]

Watch this. Its a silent video of park hill filmed in 1962. Its amazing. You can see nannans flat in a few shots with bed sheets hanging on the washing line lol. How cool did the pavement shops look then?

http://www.yfaonline.com/film/park-h...ight=park,hill

[Chti]

Originally Posted by eighty4

Watch this. Its a silent video of park hill filmed in 1962. Its amazing. You can see nannans flat in a few shots with bed sheets hanging on the washing line lol. How cool did the pavement shops look then?

http://www.yfaonline.com/film/park-h...ight=park,hill

Amazing. How many commerical units are proposed for the inner sections of the redeveloped Park Hill?

[kivo]

Is anything actually happening at Park hill now?

[lewisskinner]

Midland Station looks black in that vid lol!