Anger as Northern Powergrid leaves black 'street scar' at listed cutlery works
A prominent ‘street scar’ outside one of Sheffield’s finest Georgian buildings has been left for eight weeks.
Yards of black asphalt, in place of stone paving flags, have been in situ on Trippet Lane at Anglo Works since a power cut in July.
The Grade II listed former cutlery works and silversmiths dates from about 1800.
Grade II buildings are of ‘national importance and special interest’, according to Historic England.
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It is also close to Steel City House, a Grade II listed former telephone exchange on West Street, built in 1927 from Portland stone.
Adam Murray, of planning firm Urbana, first raised the issue, asking when the ‘street scar’ would be removed.
He added: “When developers are made to pay extra (rightly) to deliver better paving, how can this be left as it is?”
The asphalt leads back to a Northern Powergrid substation.
They added: “Temporary asphalt was used in the reinstatement to complete the underground cable fault and ensure customers’ power was not impacted further.
“New paving flags are currently on order, and we estimate a permanent reinstatement should take up to 12 weeks to complete.
“We thank customers and city centre users for their patience until the reinstatement work is finalised.”
Twelve weeks from the initial reinstatement on July 12 is October 4.
But the Northern Powergrid spokesperson warned the deadline could slip.
They added: “The work is dependent on the delivery of the matching paving slabs to our contractor, so the timescale will be flexible.”