Kate Josephs,
Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council
I am delighted that Sheffield will be attending UKREiiF for its third year in Leeds. It is our ambition to continue to drive our global reputation through placemaking, innovation, and investment. This year the city has hosted the 26th MOBO Awards, has been named Time Out’s UK Foodie Capital, and has been selected as the central government’s choice for the UK’s first Civil Service Policy Hub – we start the year as we mean to go on.
Global, Green and Growing.
We are committed to collaborating with the South Yorkshire Mayor to deliver the Investment Zone in the Region, leveraging Sheffield's assets and expertise in advanced manufacturing, health tech and life sciences.
Sheffield’s city centre regeneration is nearing completion, regeneration on a huge scale. A £470million re-imagining of what city centres need to be in the 21st century, led by Sheffield City Council.
Our successful partnerships have seen us move into the delivery phase with support from Homes England, a strategically based relationship which is intended to facilitate collaboration between landowners, private sector partners and the public sector with interventions deployed where necessary to unlock the delivery of thousands of new homes across the city.
Contact our Invest Sheffield team to start or continue a conversation: we’d love to hear from you.
Kate Josephs, Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council
At taste of what Sheffield will bring to UKREiiF 2024
New Chair for Olympic Legacy Park joins #TeamSheffield at UKREiiF
World-class sporting facilities intertwine with state-of-the-art research and development infrastructure, creating an ecosystem where Olympic ideals converge with academia, industry and cutting-edge science and technology to deliver whole-population health and wellbeing improvements, as well as helping to drive the economic regeneration of the region.
£67 million major funding boost for two new neighbourhoods in Sheffield
Two brand new residential neighbourhoods in Sheffield city centre providing 1,300 new homes, have been handed a major, multi-million-pound boost from Central Government. Development of the proposals, which has been led by the Sheffield Together - Housing Growth Board, will now be able to support important land assembly and enabling works across the sites.
Regeneration and Sustainability
How do we provide the right homes in the right places?
The government's Levelling Up agenda has recognised that future housing and regeneration delivery will require new ways of working and new long-term partnerships and approaches to create and capture value. During UKREiiF this May, Sheffield and South Yorkshire will explore the Sheffield Together Partnership and delivery of homes in the city, whilst tackling sustainability on their path to net zero and neighbourhoods place based approach.
Sheffield City Centre Transformation
Sheffield’s city centre regeneration is nearing completion. An £800 million re-imagining of what city centres need to look like in the 21st century, led by Sheffield City Council.
To drive city centre growth further 20,000 new homes will be brought forward over the coming decade.
Having been awarded TimeOut's second best European City Break for 2023 it is unsurprising that the vibrant, cultural and creative offering continues to attract visitors, businesses and investors.
Sheffield will be welcoming insights from The Sheffield Property Association, which brings together a group of businesses committed to improving the cities built environment. The association promotes and celebrates Sheffield, connecting land owners and development businesses with stakeholders and partners driving investment, opportunity and prosperity in the city. A private collective network working in partnership with the public sector to drive regeneration.
The South Yorkshire JESSICA fund provides effective development debt funding for commercial property and regeneration projects in South Yorkshire at commercial lending rates.
Since the Fund’s inception, assets totalling £188m of value have been enabled using SY JESSICA and associated funding, through recycling of capital. This has drawn in and leveraged more than £84m of private-sector capital, much of which would not be invested in the region without the Fund’s flexible investment approach.
The UK’s First Investment Zone
Communities in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley are set to benefit from thousands of new jobs and £1.2 billion of investment as part of the UK’s first Investment Zone.
Building on the area’s strengths, the South Yorkshire Investment Zone is focused on Advanced Manufacturing and includes the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. It’s expected that the Investment Zone will help leverage more than £1.2bn of private funding and help support more than 8,000 jobs by 2030.
Our latest highlights
Heart of the City Welcomes New Occupiers
DLA Piper’s move into Elshaw House (placed in the top 1% of office buildings in the UK for energy efficiency) will see one of the world’s largest law firms, and a key employer in the city, maintain its presence in Sheffield City Centre.
Cambridge Street Collective, opening this Spring, is set to be one of the biggest social hotspots in Sheffield and the largest purpose built food hall in Europe featuring an impressive lineup of 24 independent kitchens serving global flavours, 4 bars including a rooftop bar and Asian highball bar.
Leading Swedish outdoor clothing and equipment brand, Fjällräven, have now opened their third UK brand store. Independent men’s fashion retailer, Yards Store is now open on Pinstone Street. Joining the likes of Monki and Weekday, cosy Danish brand Søstrene Grene have recently launched their popular homewares store to Cambridge Street.
Henry Boot has completed the relocation of its head office to the Isaacs Building, part of the Heart Of The City development scheme. The group has taken 12,800 sq ft of space across the top three floors, providing its team and partners with a more contemporary, sustainable and flexible workspace.
Legal & General Invest into Wet Bar
Delivery of the £300 million Sheffield West Bar development is underway with partners Legal & General and Urbo. The scheme will see No 1, a 100,000 sq ft office with the largest floorplates in Sheffield, complete later this year. Phase one will also deliver the £78 million Soho Yard development.
The scheme has received numerous awards including The Yorkshires Commercial Real Estate Awards 2023, which recognised West Bar as a key ‘disruptor’ in commercial real estate, commending the unwavering commitment of the joint venture team in putting the development together, evolving the masterplan and driving the design and assembly of a commercially viable site.
Tim Roberts, CEO Henry Boot PLC
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Marianne Hawksworth
Invest Sheffield Team
Sheffield City Council
+44 (0)114 223 2353
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