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Site
name: Gibson Lane retail Zone:
Countryside Zone Land
owner: ? Date
of survey: 29-Feb-00 Current
management: None: site used to dump and burn
rubbish in part adjacent to car park. Proposed
management: Manage as a wildflower meadow glade
with open scrub. Move location used for burning
rubbish to less obvious place. 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. Use the email button at the bottom right to volunteer to help and also to send additional information and ideas for specific sites 1. Visual
Attributes - update 2004 This
overgrown, neglected area of land adjacent to the
steelworks is accessed via Gibson Lane and
Crawshaws' butchers car park. It is a relatively
flat area of wasteland covered by rough grassland,
with brambles, thistles, great willow herb and
bindweed. Groups of ash, willow, sycamore and elder
grow throughout the site. A temporary path has been
created where the vegetation has been flattened by
vehicles dumping garden waste at the west corner of
the site. The northern boundary consists of a
walled drop down to the Stocksbridge railway line
and steelworks beyond. Activities
that the site supports at present The
site is only used for dumping garden
waste. Safety The
site is secluded, hidden away behind
Crawshaws butchers, and the Friendship
pub. Although overgrown, derelict
and unused, the site is fairly
open and does not feel at all
hostile. Activities
that could be supported in the future This
site in central Stocksbridge could be improved to
create a greenspace for shoppers to sit or eat
lunch, although the situation and view into the
steelworks is not very appealing. The site could
be used
for extra car parking. Ideas
for change This
site is used as a dumping ground at present and it
needs clearing before consideration of its future
development. Ecology
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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