 Artist impression of the new Fargate
Fargate News
Welcome to our new bulletin that will keep you up to date on Fargate's regeneration.
Work is well underway to turn this historic street into a Fargate for the future. When finished, it will be a central destination for eating, drinking, socialising, co-working, and culture.
Have you been forwarded this email? Would you like to receive future editions of Fargate News?
Public realm (street scene)
An update from Sisk, the contractors carrying out the reconstruction of Fargate.
Sisk have currently completed around 30% of the work and are aiming to finish the public realm by early 2025, with most of the work completed before Christmas 2024.
What's already happened:
- Excavations and underground works on the Lush/Hotel Chocolat side of the road are complete, including statutory diversions. Sisk will return in the summer to remove the temporary tarmac and pave this area. This is done last so they can work on the sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) down the centre of Fargate without damaging new paving.
- The area outside Virgin Money has been repaved and new bollards have been installed around the paved section. This area is now opened up with small areas of tarmac to be repaved by hand close to bollards and trees.
- Outside Barclays, two tree pits have been dug and prepared ready for planting during tree planting season in November.
- The area outside HMV has been paved.
- Sections of paving have been completed outside Superdrug and Sisk will progress outside Vision Express and the corner of Norfolk Row.
 New paving outside Virgin
What's coming up within the next three months:
- Outside Barclays, between Barkers Pool and Pinstone Street, Sisk are continuing the length of bollard installations. Here, they're installing a mixture of fixed and removable bollards for part-time vehicle access points. Following bollard installation, they'll be upgrading the paving here.
- Outside the Town Hall, Sisk are raising the carriageway to create a large, flat event space, and installing a shared surface for cyclists and servicing/delivery vehicles.
- From Surrey Street to the corner of Norfolk Row, Sisk will be paving outside shops and buildings, including Tiger Sugar and H&M.
- From the Corner of Norfolk Row to Superdrug, Sisk will be paving outside the hoarding of the old Next building, and Vision Express.
- Sisk will continue paving outside shops until this side of Fargate is complete.
The next phase will be to begin constructing the sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) down the centre of Fargate, before laying the paving on the opposite side of the road, outside Tesco, Lush, and Hotel Chocolat.
Want to know more about the regeneration of Sheffield city centre?
Concept design of Event Central interior
Plans to turn the former Clintons building (20-26 Fargate) into a mixed-use cultural community hub are moving forward.
We will soon be working with the lead contractor, Willmott Dixon, and the preferred operator (to be announced soon) to review the designs and costs before the transformational work begins.
Front Door Scheme
 Orchard Square
The Front Door Scheme focuses on unlocking upper floors and improving access to key buildings on and around Fargate.
Orchard Square
With its £650,000 grant, Orchard Square revitalised its space. Works included new paving, an eye-catching canopy, and new lighting.
Montgomery Theatre
The Montgomery Theatre on Surrey Street received £495,000 to install a lift that will make the 138-year-old building accessible, opening up the upper floors, and improving the layout.
The theatre is currently closed while these works are carried out. Watch out for details of its reopening.
Ratoon (33-35 Fargate)
The inside of the old Topshop building next to M&S on Fargate has been totally transformed. Now a fully flexible city centre office space, it's available as a whole or on a floor-by-floor basis, complete with new lobby, lift, and a roof terrace.
Chapel Walk
Businesses on Chapel Walk have been awarded £1.24million to improve shop fronts and increase accessibility to the upper floors.
The Sheffield Church Burgesses Trust received £250,000 to improve its shop fronts and support works to improve access inside the building to create new workspace in the empty upper floor.
The Foundry Sheffield received £650,000 to improve its shop fronts, improve ground floor access, and reconfigure upper floors at Victoria Hall.
Small or new businesses will be able to apply for funding from a pot of £90,000 to move into empty shop units.
There will also be new public artworks to brighten up the space, using £250,000 of the funding.
 Entrance to Chapel Walk
ReNew
The ReNew project makes grants available to businesses in Sheffield for capital fit-out costs to transform under-used spaces on and around Fargate.
Juno Books on Chapel Walk, The Old Shoe and Gameshow Allstars in Orchard Square are some of the businesses that have already benefited.
A new round of funding will be announced imminently, when small businesses can apply for a grant of up to £35k.
How Fargate's regeneration is funded
- The total amount of funding for the project is £33.6million.
- The project was awarded £15.8million by the Government's Future High Street Fund in December 2020.
- We (Sheffield City Council) committed £5million match funding.
- £900,000 has been allocated from the Getting Building Fund.
- South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) have approved a strategic business case for Sheffield which allocates £11.9m.
- The target is for the majority of work on Fargate to be complete in early 2025.
- All the capital expenditure on the project is in accordance with Finance Committee approvals.
|
