We set in the afternoon today in search of some of the garage sites awaiting demolition, heading back in the direction of Gleadless Valley and away from the city centre.
Sadly we were too late. Some of the sites had already been demolished, and all that remained were concrete bases where garages had once stood. We were starting to get a little desperate when we stumbled across a lone garage as the sun was setting over Sheffield.
And, before it was dark we found a few more, and potentially an interesting site to engage with the surrounding community. A row of 4 garages stood on the corner of Windy House Lane and Queen Mary Road, with some grass surrounding them. Apparently one is vacant and they have all been recommended for demolition.
With 3881 garage plots and sites across the city, it’s amazing how hard they are to track down. It seems like a race against time to find them before demolition, and we need to think creatively, constructively and practically to save them/reinvent them or replace them.
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