Sheffield releases shortlist of Green Belt land for development

Land between Lodge Moor Road and Redmires Conduit is not owned by Sheffield Council, thus necessitating compulsory purchase/ development by private companies. This land, including the existing Pines development at the eastern end, is prone to flooding in heavy rain.
Surrounding roads are all narrow country lanes, without streetlighting or pavements, thus an influx of 258 houses, likely each property with at least two vehicles, is unsustainable.
Building on the disused, old Redmires Prisoner of War camp would be more sensible, at least that site exits onto a decent road and was historically used to house many buildings and people.
Why is the disused Norton Aerodrome site not being considered? Many derelict acres, adjacent to the main ring road and dual carriageway system – an obvious choice instead!

868 houses in Handsworth, where are all the kids from these houses going to school and how will the doctors cope with extra patients. Soon there will no green space for anyone to enjoy not to mention the wildlife,

I cannot fathom how sufficient access can be created for housing on Lodge Moor Road. As the other commenter says, the roads are narrow. The junction with Blackbrook Road is already difficult and Blackbrook Road itself is already used heavily in rush hour by people travelling from Ringinglow to Lodge Lane. More traffic would make the Redmires Road junction even more dangerous and any traffic heading into Sheffield only has the option of joining the already long queues to get through Crosspool and Broomhill. Bus travel is difficult because of the lack of bus lanes in that part of the city, and active travel difficult due to topography. Can’t see how development here can be justified.

We do not need anymore land used for business building around Thorncliff Road as the huge amounts of traffic mainly HGVs are poluting the area with noise and fumes which was once a lovely country side area to live is now like lining on a huge industrial site. When will Sheffield Council realise that there are many other areas to build on that are not green belt.

We don’t want any houses building near Grenoside !! We don’t have much greenery left ! It’s a village let’s keep it that way

The plan to build 868 houses in Handsworth is total madness. The Bramley estate is only accessible through a one way system as it is, the estate consists of 6 small roads with no through traffic, which is needed because of the one way system to get onto the estate. The proposed site is full of trees and hedgerows which home birds and other wildlife. The hedgerows are beautiful in spring, covered in May blossom and black thorn blossom. These fields are used on a regular daily basis by dog walkers and people walking, running just being out in the fresh air and getting their daily exercise. To take this away from local people is outrageous when we are all being encouraged to walk more. In Handsworth we already had to suffer the mosborough parkway which took away a vast amount of our green space, this could be deemed necessary but the building of 868 houses is totally and utterly unreasonable and I can promise there will be maximum protest at this.

Thorncliff Road chapeltown is awash with factories and offices many of which are empty why would anyone want to encroach on green belt land within a few metres from people’s homes.
Chapeltown is far too congested with cars and lorries more so on Thorncliffe Road which is already used by too many HGVs and cars that are poluting the area where we live and the noise pollution is just as bad where is this going to end there are many brown belt sites to utilise we do not need anymore employment sites around this area it verging on the ridiculous.

Hope all the houses are going to locals and I’d sooner cemeteries be gone and parks and some parking for schools

Brownfield options exhausted? Who are they trying to kid. More likely higher council tax revenue projected from the proposed green belt sites. We don’t need any more land concreted over.

Will you be building new road and infrastructure to support extra traffic in already congested areas? Has an impact assessment been done and need for community facilities planned? 1100+ new homes in S35 will put an enormous pressure on schools, dentists and GPs, the latter two of which are already struggling with the number of patients. If additional facilities are not provided, the existing and new residents will suffer.

Also, I am disgusted that the majority of these developments will take place in North Sheffield where facilities are already poorly kept by the council including roads, parks and community spaces. The whole development should be fairly shared across the whole city, not just the poorer areas.

Chaming news for all us

S35 is already struggling for school places, dentists, doctors surgery places. Chapeltown is awash with traffic as it stands! To say there are no suitable inner city and brownfield sites to be redeveloped is complete nonsense. Exactly where are the plans for any support infrastructure, new schools, additional surgeries, dentists. Once again S35 is being seen as an easy target by an incompetant council with an obvious agenda that clearly includes punishing honest hard working people who value their neighbourhoods and want to keep their formerly protected green spaces. We pay a fortune in council tax for minimal service….By the way where is our Labour MP in all this? Gone to ground no doubt, zero interest in the views of the electorate or supporting the people of this area unless of course its polling time

Will surprisingly pass plans I bet with some back handed deals. Green belt is a green belt for a reason but when it suits the council they can all of a sudden build on it.

Why can’t houses be built on land where council houses have been demolished. There are area’s on Deerlands Ave that could/should be re-built on and I’m sure there must be other area’s in Sheffield like this.
Also maybe Sheffield council need to look at their current housing stock. I know for a fact that a 3 bedroom house on Wordworth Ave has been empty since November 2023, it’s now May 2025, why isn’t a family in this house. How many more council houses are empty?
In my area 2 years ago 150 2,3,4 bed houses and a block of flats were built. I don’t know how many people are now living in this ‘new’ area but we have no extra school places, no extra Doctors, so tell me how building 1,666 houses will affect S35. It will a disaster!
On another point why has the land opposite the Sheffield Wednesday ground being used to build yet another retail park. How many shops can an area sustain. We have Margetson shops, an Asda, a Lidl, various shops along Halifax rd, go down to the Kilner Way retail park which has various shops and a large empty shop which used to be Tesco’s. Travel further down the rd, we then have Sainsbury’s and Greggs, a Spar in the petrol station, an Asda on Middlewood rd. Keep on travelling towards town B&Q, the Barracks, various shops including Morrisons, Flora st retail park, then lastly Tesco’s on Infirmary rd.
I’m sure that this land could have been much better utilized than building yet another retail park

Absolutely disgraceful. The wildlife will suffer and protected animals will die. So much for protecting them. All parks and woodland should not be used trees contribute to keeping us alive.

It’s absolutely disgusting that Sheffield City Council are wanting to build all this in GREEN BELT LAND. This is protected land and must not be allowed. Fill the brown field sites first. S35 will loose so much is this is allowed. And if it is, it just sets the ball rolling for building on all green belt. It’s heartbreaking. We must stand together and fight against this.

These proposals seem heavily focussed on North Sheffield. The area is already swamped with warehousing, much of which is to let, unoccupied and intrusive (the area sits against the M1, Barnsley and Rotherham, where there has and continues to be substantial development of warehousing) Housing and the people which occupy it need infrastructure, which at present is weak and overwhelmed. Sheffield is known for its rich green spaces, there are hundreds of underutilised spaces across the city, surely the focus should be to develop these not cut down trees and damage wild areas which many enjo and value, supporting well-being and the environment more widely? All this seems a very backward step. Come on council don’t be walked over by government stand up, make your case and support real improvements for Sheffield, that enhance its attributes particularly in the north of the city.

There is no further need for anymore units/retail/business units to be built or located in the S35 area. The majority of them stand empty and unoccupied. The area around Warren Lane is badly needed to sustain wildlife – deer, hares, rabbits not to forget the birds. The traffic cannot be sustained- everyone needs the environment to be protected not just to sustain wildlife but also to protect our mental sanity.

I’m a resident on yew lane and we have a lovely view of grenoside and also there plenty of wildlife and horses what would need to be disturbed. Lived here for 73 years and would be a shame to spoil our estate. All resident of yew lane should have an opinion. Was better when was under west riding county council.