The future of the Sheaf Walk
Several lengths of the River Sheaf Walk & Cycleway have not been constructed. The Sheaf & Porter Rivers Trust is pressing the City Council, Landowners and developers to protect a route through the planning process and help to fund and construct these important sections of the walk.
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River Sheaf Walk
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The Missing Links
We are working to fill in the remaining gaps.
1. The Sheaf Confluence to Granville Square
Signage along the underground route
2. Rowsley Street to Edmund Court.
Edmund Court contains a safe guarded section of River Sheaf Walk. Joining this up will be difficult and expensive.
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3. Bridge to Priestley House (formerly Royal Riverside).
The developer here was due to provide a section of River Sheaf Walk. The council need to undertake enforcement to make this happen.
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4. KFC / Dunkin Donut to Queens Road Bridge.
A very difficult section to deliver. The River Sheaf lives in a narrow gorge and the area is highly developed already. Several regeneration projects will be needed to
unlock this part of the Sheaf. Highfield has very little greenspace and this would provide a linear green & bluespace for residents once built.
Unbuilt apartments at the corner of Edmund Road and Queens Road back in 2009 (09/02216/OUT) planned for the riverside walk to continue down the west bank. There is an existing, yet derelict bridge further downstream, so perhaps the council team leading this in the early 2000s had plans to bypass the houses and connect up the sections as commercial sites had been redeveloped.
Original Planning drawings & Office Report from 2009.
5. Queens Road Costa Coffee to Myrtle Road. A developer is in the processing of providing this link, enabling us to unlock the hidden riverside walk behind Travis Perkins and Big Yellow Box Storage.
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7. Sheaf Bank to Heeley Bridge
A Spider Web bridge of Five Weirs Walk style to take the route under the very large railway arch.
8. Old Heeley Station to Saxon Road.
A footbridge once crossed the Sheaf here, let's restore it.
9. Broadfield Park back to Little London Road.
We are trying to convince Laver Regeneration Limited to allow a 20m footpath to allow this to happen.
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10. Troutbeck Road to Tesco.
Enforcement action ongoing to allow this to happen.
Part of this River Sheaf Walk already exists, as seen on the left of the photo.
Tesco built a section of the Riverside Walk under their access bridge, ready for a connection.
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11. Tesco to Millhouses Park.
The final stretch, under the Archer Road, directly into Millhouses Park.
Or is it?
We also have lofty ambitions to connect all the way to Dore and Totley Station, along the edge of Beauchief Golf Club and into the existing riverside paths at Ladies Spring Woods. Very long term indeed.