Mosborough Co-op: Scaffolding in place at Sheffield supermarket building which was threatened with demolition

The building, which was constructed to house a new Co-op in Mosborough, is on the site of the former Royal Oak pub on High Street, demolished without permission in 2021.

And now builders appear to have started work to change the face of the building, after plans for how the structure would look had to be changed. The shop is still yet to open.

The demolition work on the former pub was later given retrospective planning permission, with an agreement also given to allow the construction of three retail units, including the supermarket - but Sheffield Council said the building on the site did not match the plans that had been agreed, and new ones had to be submitted.

It recommended that the planning enforcement team be authorised to take ‘any appropriate action’ which including beginning legal proceedings ‘to secure the removal of the building’.

Now, new drawings and details have been submitted to Sheffield Council this month from the developer, and scaffolding has appeared around the building, with some elements already appearing to have been removed from the upper section of the structure

This work all follows another planning application having been submitted in July.

A council report had stated that the original building was 5ft taller than set out in the original planning proposal, which it said had an ‘unacceptable’ impact on a neighbouring property.

The report also criticised ‘poor workmanship’ on the fascias and said lower quality materials than those agreed had been used.

The new planning application includes proposals to remove the ‘large top heavy timber effect fascias’, replacing them with ‘natural timber fascias’, and to ‘reintroduce natural stonework above with stone copings to the parapets’.

It describes wood used on the walls as Larch or cedar weathered cladding, and the stonework as being matching or reused weathered stone from the existing building.

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The photo of the building as it now appears seems to show that some work has already been carried out.

A wooden section appears to have been taken from the top of the building, with breeze blocks apparently exposed.

The company had been given an extension until this month to submit final technical planning details, which are now in place.