Cars will be banned from streets of eco-friendly housing estate in a bid to ‘change behaviours’ of families – with pathways designed just for pedestrians and cyclists
Cars will be banned from the streets of a new eco-friendly housing estate to ‘change behaviours’ of how families live their lives.
If the £300million project to regenerate an area of Sheffield with a 1,000 home ‘green’ estate is approved by council planners then private cars will be put at the back of the queue.
Attercliffe Waterside has deliberately been designed so that cars won’t be allowed to park outside homes.
There will be a car park, but it won’t be visible from the development and only have 400 spaces.
As the estate is less than one-and-a-half miles from the town centre, the developers are confident of selling the properties while at the same time giving priority to pedestrians and cyclists with pathways designed just for them.
Cars will be banned from the streets of a new eco-friendly housing estate in Sheffield to ‘change behaviours’ of how families live their lives
As the estate is less than one-and-a-half miles from the town centre, the developers are confident of selling the properties
Chris Thompson, founder of Citu, the company behind the scheme, said: ‘If you put a car outside the front door you are inviting people to come by car.
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If you put in good cycling and walking infrastructure you’re inviting them to make that their primary means of getting around.’
The main planning document states ‘creating a car-free landscape and prioritising walking and cycling has been vital to this development, which is located only walking distance from the city centre, main bus and train station.’
The ‘zero carbon homes’ on site will be constructed with timber frames and powered with heat pumps and there will be a ‘sustainable urban drainage system.’
Banning cars from the streets next to the properties is intended to change the behaviour of residents, Mr Thompson told the Sheffield Star.
The 447 homes planned for the first phase will range in size from one-bedroom apartments to four-bedroom houses. Built next to a canal, there will also be plenty of green space, trees and landscaping to encourage community socialising.
Commercial and leisure spaces will also be built on site.
Attercliffe Waterside has deliberately been designed so that cars won’t be allowed to park outside homes
It is due to begin with converting a former steelworks and other buildings into a café, pub, shop, offices and events space.
If approved by the council around 100 homes could be built every year for 10 years. Some will be for sale and some for rent.
Landowner Sheffield City Council is stumping up £4m from a brownfield housing fund to buy out property owners, including the Duke of Norfolk, and remediate polluted land.
Councillors and local Labour MP Clive Betts have given their support to the project to regenerate the city’s run-down east end.
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