Famous flats set to be home for 74 students

PLANS HAVE been submitted for the next phase in the redevelopment of Sheffield’s Park Hill flats – providing accommodation for more than 70 students.

An application for third phase of the development has been submitted to Sheffield Council by Alumno Student Developments and Urban Splash as joint applicants, detailing a total of “74 student accommodation units”.

Developers are also applying to create a range of mixeduse commercial space around South Block, where the student accommodation would be housed, car parking spaces and cycle storage.

Phase two of the plans – to provide almost 200 homes, commercial space and car parking – was the approved in 2017 and work is set to begin this year.

The first phase – which saw the regeneration of 263 flats – was completed in March 2016. “This application comprises the third phase of the Park Hill Estate regeneration,” documents submitted by Alumno state.

The flats, built in the 1950s, have become a feature of film and television, with using them as a location, as well as Sheffieldbased Warp’s starring Martin Freeman,

They are also featured in an Arctic Monkeys video and are referenced in the Pulp track

For years the estate has divided opinion among people in Sheffield, with some seeing the flats as a blot on the landscape.