Student Flats scheme for Sheffield eyesore site
A rundown ‘gateway’ to Sheffield railway station could be transformed by the proposed redevelopment of a derelict industrial site for student accommodation.
The old WW Laycock buildings in Suffolk Road are next to Cross Turner Street, which forms the main road entrance to the station.
Developers are looking to clear much of the site to make way for 142 student flats – but to save the main frontage of the former silversmiths and buffing workshops, including the entrance arch, and to incorporate it into the complex …