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Skyline Gymnastics club set to open after permission is granted to convert a former florist in an industrial unit into a gym.

Gymnastics club after developers get permission to convert florist

Liberty Speciality Steels UK: Preparing an ingot to go into the Vacuum Arc Remelting furnace at Stocksbridge.

Receiver appointed over debts at crisis-hit steel firm

A plan has been drawn up to save the 'iconic' St Catherine of Siena Church, on Richmond Road, Sheffield. Photo: Google

Plan drawn up amid 'irreversible ruin' fears for iconic church

Plans for big screen outside The Belfry pub, in Beighton, Sheffield to show sport have been drawn up, but have raised concern from neighbours. Photo: Google

Popular Sheffield local set to close for major refurbishment

Here are nine remarkable planning applications put to Sheffield City Council and validated in the past week and could change whole neighbourhoods around them.

Round up of plans put to Sheffield's city council

The Castlegate park project, pictured here, has hit a delay and will not now be completed until the end of 2026. Photo: Sheffield City Council

City centre redevelopment delay as officials change plans

The first homes of the new Smithy Wood Gate development in Dodworth, comprising of a mix of one, two, three and four-bedroom homes, have gone up for sale

First houses of new Barnsley development go on sale

The Queens Head pub, on Wortley Road, High Green, would be converted into a house, under plans submitted to Sheffield City Council

Uncertainty over future of historic Sheffield pub after sale

Park Academy is looking to bring in mobile buildings onto its site near Prince of Wales Road. Photo: Google

80s style solution to boost size of popular Sheffield school

Plans for big screen outside The Belfry pub, in Beighton, Sheffield to show sport have been drawn up, but have raised concern from neighbours. Photo: Google

Pub reveals plans for huge outdoor TV screen in beer garden

A 37-ton memorial to famous bare-knuckle boxer Willy Collins remains in place three years after it was unveiled but found to have deviated from the original plans (Photo: SWNS)

Giant memorial in Shiregreen Cemetery still in place

The Abbeydale Road cafe built an extension without seeking prior approval from the council - though locals have celebrated and defended the change in a retrospective planning application recently put forward.

Community voices support for cafe extension built without permission

Chris Thompson of developer Citu is seeking an operator for a former steelworks in Kelham Island.

Old steelworks in trendy district could become live music venue

The O2 Academy on Arundel Gate has been closed since September 2023 over repots of crumbly concrete in its roof. Planning permission has now been granted to replace the roof and could bring the venue’s troubles to an end.

Planning permission granted to replace 'crumbly concrete' roof

The former Sunday School on Ecclesall Road is back on the market.

Dismay as operator makes announcement on ambitious food hall plans

A design drawing shows Oppidan Tower on King Street would be significantly taller. than Kings Tower opposite and could be Yorkshire's tallest building.

Plans unveiled for 1,000 flats and record breaking tower

Plans for a 40-storey building called Kings Tower, on the old Primark site at the corner of High Street and Angel Street, in Sheffield city centre, were approved in January 2024.

Shops and leisure plan to transform street near 'tallest skyscraper'

The Sheffield University Central Teaching Laboratories were planned to be ready for the start of the 2027 academic year.

No opening date for £86m 'superlab' shelved over £50m funding crisis

New steel man statue planned for roundabout near Meadowhall

The former Manor Community Centre site off Prince of Wales Road, Sheffield, which has been put up for sale with an asking price of £1.1 million. Sheffield City Council says the plot, which is currently empty and overgrown, has the capacity for 34 homes.

Former community centre site hits market for £1.1m, with homes planned

Barratt Homes' outline plans for up to 160 new homes on a former sports ground on Bawtry Road, Sheffield, where Rotherham United had planned to build a new academy training complex. Picture: Barratt Homes/STEN Architecture

Huge new housing development planned on former sports ground

Lowedges Drive

Spacious 3-bedroom family home with garden selling for just £150,000

Hamilton House Nursery on Montgomery Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield, closed its doors on November 22, three days before the release of an Ofsted report branding it ‘inadequate in all areas.’

Nursery closes doors three days before 'inadequate' Ofsted report

Stock Image of a battery energy storage facilities

Council refuses planning permission for battery storage on green belt land

The Gypsy Queen pub in Beighton, Sheffield, is set to close and be converted into a Hickory's Smokehouse restaurant (inset) by Greene King

Popular city pub to close and reopen as 'smokehouse' restaurant

How Aldi’s new supermarket on Penistone Road North, Hillsborough, Sheffield, will look

Aldi announces when new supermarket will open

Snail Yard

Cash boost for stalled pocket park plans

Here are six developments in Sheffield that could create more than 1,600 new flats and homes if they get underway.

Six ambitious plans to create 1,600 new homes in Sheffield

Phil Austin has built a lighthouse in the middle of Salford - 30 miles away from the nearest coast.

I was refused planning permission for a home...so I built a LIGHTHOUSE

Scaffolding in place at the planned Co-op supermarket at High Street, Mosborough

Scaffolding up at supermarket which was threatened with demolition

Planning permission for a proposed walkway and cycleway which campaigners and councillors found too narrow next to a Sheffield care home has been rejected.

Riverside footpath next to Sheffield care home rejected for being too narrow

Coun Toby Mallinson has objected to a housing plan above a shop in Middlewood Road, saying Hillsborough needs "high-quality affordable and social housing, not modern slums". Picture: Sheffield Council webcast

“Modern slums” accusation over housing plan

The home of Nick Lupton during the flooding of January 2024.

I built a wall around my house after it was flooded 11 times

How the proposed tower block at the corner of Farm Road and the A61 Queens Road, just south of city centre, would look. It would be up to 29 storeys tall and have 413 apartments. Picture: 5plus Architects

Plans for new 29-storey tower block near station

The former Trinity Methodist Church building, on Chapel Street, Woodhouse, Sheffield, which dates back to 1878 and is Grade II-listed, has been put up for sale with an asking price of just £175,000

Historic church for sale at just £175K after flats plan rejected

Adriatik Likaj has been trying to open Dodona restaurant on Sharrow Vale Road for two-and-a-half years.

Businessman sells house to fund £500,000 bid to open restaurant

Sheffield City Council leader Tom Hunt and the new neighbourhoods planned for the old Cannon Brewery site and in Attercliffe

New neighbourhoods planned to meet huge demand for housing in city

Concerns have been raised over rat runs as consultation starts over controversial plans to make Northumberland Road one way. Google

Safety fears over 'one way' controversy near new university building

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