In February 2024 work started on the Sheffield castle site to create a new city centre open space, prepare new development sites on Exchange Street and Waingate and, our priority, to reveal a section of river Sheaf not seen since it was covered over in 1912.  The Trust has set up a webcam in Exchange Studios to post images of the construction site updated at regular intervals.  
Project completion has been delayed due to archaeology, river engineering, and heritage regulation which turned out to be far more complex than expected.
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Wessex Archaeology have finished excavating the Castle site and you can find out more about their discoveries,  by clicking the button below.  


Current work on the deculverting in Autumn 2026  shows a prefabricated wall restraint system being installed, which will be integrated with pre-cast fish pass 'notched steps beams'  across the river.  The Sheaf has been piped through the works, athough high flows will occasionally flood the works;  something that has been allowed for in the design.