Comments on: Save Portland works, Sheffield

By: Derek Morton

Derek Morton — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:54:50 +0000

The campaign has moved on! The planning application has been withdrawn for the present, and the camapaign group are now bidding to BUY the Works as a community enterprise.

They want everyone to consider buying into the project to raise £750,000 to buy, manage and restore the Works, keeping the existing tenants and bringing in more to restored workshops.

see http://www.portlandworks.co.uk for more

By: Mary Waters

Mary Waters — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:34:35 +0000

We must not let Portland Works be converted into flats. It is fantastic and must be preserved as a working building. Sheffield has been mutilated far too much already. There are plenty of empty spaces and disused builings, churches and factories which could be used first.

By: David Crawshaw

David Crawshaw — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:18:21 +0000

I feel Sheffield does not need yet another block of flats at the further expense of its proud heritage. Too many repairable buildings, still housing traditional industries are being sacrificed to the greed of property developers.I object strongly to this development.

By: Brian Hatch

Brian Hatch — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:56:41 +0000

The facebook group “pictures of sheffield old and new” have currently got an exhibition of members photographs in the castle market (lower ground), down there also we have dedicated some space to the saving of portland works with photographs of some of the people that make their living there, to the side of this small exhibit there is a petition (which is doing well to say it only been running 1 week). We have also set up an online petition at, http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveportlandworks/
Contrary to what the last poster has written (we are all entitled to an opinion and i respect his) portland works cannot be allowed to be redeveloped into flats/apartments or studios, we need to keep alive Sheffield’s heritage for our children.

By: Danny Fortress

Danny Fortress — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:21:50 +0000

Portland works meaning wigful tools is a digrace to work due to knowing someone that works there, it leaks water and it is a very bad place to work. Portland works is falling down if you want t see history please go to the abbeydale industrial hamlet. I personal think portland works as run its cousre and it time to knock it down.

By: Sheffield blog

Sheffield blog — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:25:40 +0000

If you click Submit comments and find your address you will eventually get through to the form where you can formally object.

There is also more information here:

http://www.portlandworks.co.uk/

http://www.derekmor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/page_2.html

By: nic bate

nic bate — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:37:19 +0000

How do we formally object, I’ve looked at the planning application and it’s not clear? There’s an option to submit comments but this doesn’t seem to be the way to do it. Please advise, thanks !

By: Sheffield blog

Sheffield blog — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:43:11 +0000

There is now another website for Portland works, too:

http://www.portlandworks.co.uk/