Budget changes approved for major Sheffield city centre developments

Multi-million pound plans to develop Sheffield city centre progressed after councillors approved spending changes for a number of schemes.
How Fitzalan Square would look after the Knowledge Gateway project is completed.How Fitzalan Square would look after the Knowledge Gateway project is completed.
How Fitzalan Square would look after the Knowledge Gateway project is completed.

Sheffield City Council's cabinet approved a number of additions and alterations as part of its capital programme spending at a meeting at the Town Hall on Tuesday.

The changes include allocating money from the 2017/18 budget into the 2018/19 budget for projects such as Sheffield Retail Quarter and the Knowledge Gateway - a £5.6 million scheme to upgrade Fitzalan Square and the route along the Lower Sheaf and Porter Valey between the railway station and Sidney Street.