Ecclesall Road

[DNA858]

what about hooters on ecclesall road?

[Bulldozer]

Originally Posted by SheffCity

That Peugeot dealer has to go along with Kwik Fit and Vauxhall to better integrate the rest of Ecclesall Road with town IMO. Replacing them with pubs/restaurants/retail will be much better.

That will come with time because wickes used to be were the big service office block is and it only lasted about 10y.
The garages will move out to modern out of town site as they consolidate more.
Is the Kennings Ex rover dealers site still a garage or has that gone now.

I would not be surprised if Finnegans have options on there as they built the offices behind and the Old Rabone Chesterman site plus most of the James Neil site by Wards brewery.


At the moment there are alot of sites available, and when the right D&B offer comes along they will develop them unless planing flats. Some of the Building near there were occupied by University departments (admin) ?

Like the idea of a development round a square, of mixed use, as would fill the gap from town to Ecclesall rd proper.

[hella good]

Originally Posted by DNA858

what about hooters on ecclesall road?

funnily enough i saw an advert in a magazine yesterday that was for hooters, it said they were looking for units in certain cities, there was then a list of cities which included every one in the UK. including Sheffield.

[tbramwell]

Does anyone have any information/renders etc.. about the scheme going up infront of somerfield on eccy road? i cant seen to find any planning application for it??

[hella good]

all ive got is the very blurred photos of the render up at the site, it looks quite good.

here they are, again sorry for the quality

[tbramwell]

Cheers, it looks like quite an interesting shaped building, not sure im a huge fan but cant really tell as the renders on the site boundary are very sketchy.

[AdamBlade]

They could look like a big pile of shit and it would still beat the Scummerfield. Can't wait to see how they turn out.

[AndrewC]

This might seem obvious, but its worth saying I think:

Just looking at the City Masterplan ExecSummary and - i don't know if anyone has mentioned this before - but its seems likely that the future pedestrian movement between Eccyroad and the city will be diverted away from the Moore St Roundabout and towards the improved pedestrian crossings/routes to the north around across Hanover Way towards Fitzwilliam St and Dev Quarter, but mainly to the south perhaps in front of or behind Waitrose to join up with London road where the improved pedestrian links across the ringroad will take onto the Moor and into the city.

I can't see Waitrose being demolished, but certainly the Peogot(?) garage will probably be developed in the near future and it will more than likely provide an improved pedestrian route through to Napier St/Cemetery Road. I'm pretty sure the old line of Ecclesall road before the development of the ringroad after the war was a sweeping curve from Wards Brewery across the front of Waitrose and joining London Road where the Chinese Fireworks Company building is, so a route along that way would be re-establishing some urban grain also.

[greenestcity1]

pergeut. . . .i think

[Frogged]

that's Peugeot

[greenestcity1]

Lol thank you frogged. . . just the man, youve probably gathered english are the most arogant when it comes to languages because everybody seems to speak ours lol.

[Frogged]

Nah, that's fine. And the French aren't particularly well known for multilingualism either.

[greenestcity1]

I did GCSE french and i hated it, no offense to you personaly but it did my head in so now in my spare im learnin german what i wanted to learn at school.

[lewisskinner]

Originally Posted by AndrewC

I'm pretty sure the old line of Ecclesall road before the development of the ringroad after the war was a sweeping curve from Wards Brewery across the front of Waitrose and joining London Road where the Chinese Fireworks Company building is, so a route along that way would be re-establishing some urban grain also.

Yes, you're absolutely correct. Eccy Road, Cemetery Road, and London Road all intersected, around the current junction of London Road and St Mary's Gate. Eccy Road's junction with the ring road was moved slightly southward, and the old sweep was diverted and widened into the ring road

[AndrewC]

lol, I actually wasn't questioning my spelling of Peogot, rather I wasn't sure it wasn't another car dealership!

I think rejoing London Road and Ecclesall Road would be great for both as that could become quite an important pedestrian junction in the future.

[Bulldozer]

There used to be an office block about were the clockwise carriage way is and the Waitrose car park edge. It was demolished when the IRR was built through there to upper Hanover st.

[PaulP]

Yes, I remember that - it was for Davy Computing. There was also a Volvo dealers down there in the earler-mid 90s.

[SheffCity]

Originally Posted by PaulP

Yes, I remember that - it was for Davy Computing. There was also a Volvo dealers down there in the earler-mid 90s.

I remember Davy Computing down there. And the big old Coop building they demolished to build Safeway.

[Bulldozer]

Tried to find pictures but no look also old map of area.

Did find a site with stuff more out of town mainley gleadless area, but with variouse maps of sheffield and some photos, inc ariel photo of Ridgeway road in 1930 ! few houses in fields.

http://www.gleadless.net/pages/other/sitemap.htm

[lewisskinner]

I posted a map a 6/7 weeks ago Bully:

I can't work out how to get it in it's full glory on flickr or photobucket, but I got it at 1024x721:

image hosted on flickr

click for larger size