1 week Ago By Finn Smith
Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. The plans would see land between numbers 27 and 29 on Burngreave Road, which is currently used for garages, turned into six flats. Sign up for newsletters from The Star Accommodation would be tight, as the new building would have to fit into the slim gap between existing properties which is only around seven metres wide.
Advertisement Advertisement The building’s interior would be closer to six metres wide, with ground floor properties only being afforded five metres to accommodate passageways. To put this into perspective, a Premier League football goal is 24ft, or 7.3 metres wide.
One of the six flats proposed is a bedsit that includes kitchen and bathroom facilities all within a space of 15sqm. It’s not the first time such a suggestion has been made on this site. Since 2003 there have been four applications to convert the land into dwellings, three of which were granted conditionally, though none came to fruition.
Advertisement Advertisement Previous proposals were much more modest however, putting forward houses for a single family, rather than the multiple occupancy plan currently under consideration. South Yorkshire Police have put forward a document highlighting safety concerns, especially around construction which can be impacted by ant-social behaviour. Get The Star for less than a fiver with our new value subscription package It says: “The development occupies a notably narrow plot, and the neighbouring property at number 29 has recently built an extension extending all the way to their boundary line.
Advertisement Advertisement “The submitted planning documents make no mention of any security measures associated with the project. “The entrances into the development should be well lit and offer as much natural surveillance to the street scene as possible and should be lit with external light fittings to a standard to BS 5489 (road lighting). “Such developments can suffer adversely from anti-social behaviour or criminality due to unrestricted access to all areas and floors of the building.
“Therefore, it is advisable that measures are implemented to prevent unlawful free movement throughout the building through, the use of an access control system - how this is achieved is a matter for the specifier. Advertisement Advertisement “Sheffield like other cities is seeing a significant increase in parcel and letter thefts at such establishments. “Apartment blocks and other managed rental properties around the country are experiencing an upsurge in delivered parcels.
“In unmanned apartment blocks, couriers may be unable to access buildings, leading to missed deliveries or parcels being left in unsecured locations where they are stolen. “Where access is possible, parcels can build up in unattended reception areas causing obstructions and other security issues. Advertisement Advertisement “The development should have a secure room or systems in place to facilitate secure parcel and letter delivery.
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