A new leisure hall complex is due to be built next to Sheffield's Meadowhall centre - despite disquiet about what the move will mean for the city and other retail centres.
- which has long been accused of taking shoppers away from the city centre - involve new cafes, restaurants and bars based in a leisure hall that will be integrated into the southern side of the shopping centre.
This is to minimise the effect on both Sheffield and Rotherham, which also has plans to mix shopping and leisure. Rotherham Council was among the objectors to the Meadowhall scheme because of fears that investors may be drawn away from the Forge Island plans taking shape to build a hotel, cinema, restaurants and bars, set in riverside gardens.
Meadowhall is itself a regeneration success story. Sheffield Council’s own website highlights how the site, previously the home to the East Hecla Works of Hadfields Ltd, was chosen “to help regenerate Sheffield’s industrial east end following the major changes in the steel and manufacturing industries in the late 1970s and early 1980s which saw many firms close, unemployment rise and land left unused and derelict”.
He asked: “Why do we want to damage Sheffield’s economy at this time or in the future? Rotherham is objecting to this, and if Rotherham can stand up for its town centre, why can’t Sheffield, too?”Coun Tom Hunt was worried that Meadowhall’s impact on leisure plans in nearby shopping centres could be higher than stated, as there is nothing to stop existing stores becoming leisure facilities.
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