New 'green' fire stations

The impact of the building - to be constructed on Eyre Street in Sheffield - on the environment was one of the considerations taken into account when the design of the building was approved, fire chiefs said.

Similarly, new fire service workshops to be built in Rotherham have also been designed to be environmentally friendly.

Rainwater harvesting - the use of rainwater to flush toilets - will be used on both new sites in an effort to reduce the fire service’s carbon footprint - its energy consumption rate.

The new HQ building has also been designed to allow easy connection to the city’s biomass hot water main, which uses a wide variety of organic material such as waste paper and chipped waste wood for the generation of heat and electricity.

The Rotherham workshops will use solar power to heat water, a wind turbine to generate electricity and specialist panels installed to convert solar energy to electricity.