New 100-home towers plan for city centre site in 'disrepair'

If approved, the new buildings would be constructed along Alma Street and Corporation Street in Sheffield

A run-down building on the outskirts of Sheffield city centre could be demolished to make way for two new towers containing more than 100 homes.

Councillors will consider plans to demolish the existing building on the eastern edge of Kelham Island later this year.

A planning document said the site, along Alma Street and Corporation Street, was currently occupied by vacant workshops "in various states of disrepair".

If given the go-ahead, two towers - one of six storeys and one of seven storeys - containing a total of 128 homes would be built.

According to the planning documents to be scrutinised by councillors, the site had housed industrial properties since it was first built on in the Victorian era.

"Maps dating back to 1850 show a steel and iron wire factory on site called Pilot Works, which occupied much of the site, part of which became Corporation Street when it was introduced in the 1860-70s," a report said.

“Sections were added and removed from the works over the early 20th Century, a small section which can be traced as far back as 1890 still exists on the southern end of the site."

The report added that if the plans were approved, the new development would take into account the scale and concentration of several other newly built towers in the area, two of which - both residental blocks - reached 15 and 19 floors high.

Planning officers have set 28 August as a target date for a decision on the proposals, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

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