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Site
name: Manchester Road (north side) open
space Zone:
Industrial Zone Land
owner: Corus Engineering Steels Date
of survey: 25-Feb-00 Current
management: Amenity grass mown short and hedge
trimmed. Proposed
management: Extend hedge along whole north part
of the site and sow wildflower mix to create a
field margin effect along the length of the
hedge. SK26169879 Date
of Visual Survey
- Aug 2004 Click
map to see details and location of
photographs The ideas and possibilities outlined below are designed to help members of the local community as they think about what could happen on this site. Nothing is fixed and alternative solutions may well emerge over the coming decade - it is for the local community to decide and enable it to happen.
1. Visual
Attributes - update 2004 A
strip of mown grass runs along the north side of
Manchester Road, segregated from the pavement by a
crash barrier and stone wall. A steep drop to the
Little Don River (which cannot be seen from passing
vehicles) is covered in brambles, bracken, rose bay
willow herb and ash saplings. These plants are
quite untidy in appearance, but are far more
visually interesting than the mundane expanse of
mown grass. A row of trees and shrubs, including
hawthorn, ash and elder, is situated at the top of
the river bank, screening off the steelworks from
the road. A sparse hawthorn hedge attempts to hide
a wide yellow gas pipe to the east of the site,
which passes over the river into the
works. Safety The
regular passing of traffic and pedestrians would
provide some surveillance of the site, although the
busy road would be a hazard for children.
Activities
that the site supports at present Pedestrian
occasionally walk along the grass instead of the
pavement and children are sometimes seen balancing
along the crash barrier and wall. Activities
that could be supported in the
future The
proximity of the main road and the steelworks
discourages use of the site, but a more visually
interesting (and economical) planting scheme could
be devised to replace the existing mown
grass. Ecology
People
Stocksbridge SRB5 Greenspace Audit undertaken by Jim Flanagan for Sheffield Wildlife Trust - see their Community Action Handbook - full of good ideas for your local site |
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