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GREY TO GREEN (PHASE 1), SHEFFIELD, PUBLIC REALM WINNER
Nominated by Sheffield Civic Trust
The judges said: “We applaud Sheffield City Council for investing in the quality of the city’s public realm and building innovative partnerships to find contemporary solutions to water management. Grey to Green is an outstanding example to other local authorities in transforming areas once dominated by tarmac and traffic into beautifully playful and high quality civic spaces.”
Innovative and inspiring, Grey to Green (Phase 1) is an impressive multi-purpose public space that demonstrates a new approach to improving the quality of the public realm in our town and city centres. The project has enhanced the public realm, made walking and cycling more attractive and enjoyable and improved connectivity between Sheffield’s Riverside Business District and the rest of the city centre.
The first phase of a 1.3km corridor of improvements, currently the largest planned retro-fit SUDS scheme in the UK, the project has taken an innovative approach to water management using a mix of natural and recycled materials and perennial low maintenance planting. The area’s heritage has been celebrated using five eye-catching public art ‘totems’ which reveal some of the area's colourful and unexpected history and associations. High quality landscaping, materials and bold, playful public art have created attractive civic spaces, providing opportunities for social interaction and enjoyment of nature.
Securing funding of £3.5m from the European Regional Development Fund and Sheffield City Region Infrastructure Fund the project will improve the city’s resilience to climate change while transforming ‘grey’ redundant road space within Sheffield’s Riverside Business District, into a network of ‘green’ flower meadows, wetlands and public spaces
The scheme has embraced innovation to meet the challenges of climate change, reduced public funding and the need for more partnership and collaboration.
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