Site name: Pearson Street open space	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: Mostly SCC Housing	Date of survey: 28-Feb-00
Current management: Amenity grass and hedges cut.	Proposed management: Bulb planting (wildflower bulb planting) and lavender hedges (lavender hedges). Wildflower meadow area (wildflower meadows), or butterfly garden (butterfly gardens).
sk26729868	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 A rutted drive leads into this square site from Manchester road. Car parking surrounds a central ‘green’ area, which is divided into three by short paths that meet at a central seating area. Many attractive rowan trees line these paths, along with sycamores, alders and silver birch. The site is enclosed on three sides by housing and a high post and wire fence runs along the north boundary at the top of a steep drop down into the steels works. There is some patchy shrub planting in front of this fence. This space seems to be totally uncared for; the planting is sparse and unkempt, and the grass has many bare patches. The benches are obviously unused and in a very bad state of disrepair, and there is a lot of litter.
Safety The site feels quite hostile due to its obvious neglect, even though it is used regularly by residents,. It is enclosed and away from the road, so would be safe for children. Activities that the site supports at present Car parking is the primary use. There is also evidence of play, with the remnants of a children’s den in one corner of the site.	2.
3.	Activities that could be supported in the future This site has much potential, as it is sheltered and a good size and shape to make a communal courtyard or garden for the residents of surrounding houses. Existing trees could be thinned to lighten up the space and a play area could be incorporated into its design.
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Ecology

HABITAT TYPES FOUND ON SITE
	found 2002	aim by 2012		found 2002	aim by 2012
Amenity Grassland	*		Mosses and Bryophytes
Amenity Shrubs	*		Heath Land
Amenity Tree Planting	*		Wetlands
Amenity Flower Beds			Open Water
Amenity Hedges	*		Running Water
Rough Grassland			Cultivated/Disturbed Land
Acid Grassland			Bare Earth/Erosion
Marshy Grassland			Hedges	*
Trees Broadleaf			Walls
Trees Coniferous			Fences	*
Trees Mixed			Invasive Species
Scrub			Other (Please state)
Tall Herbs
Low Herbs and Shrubs (Native)
Amenity Bulb Planting

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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