Already home to one of Sheffield’s largest inward investments, The Home Office, Top 25 law firm Irwin Mitchell, and the Crown and Family Courts.
West Bar was made possible with the completion of Sheffield’s Inner Ring Road, which created the opportunity to develop an exciting accessible new business address at the heart of one of the UK’s largest cities.
West Bar comprises over 7 acres of development land assembled by Urbo to create an exciting new neighbourhood. This provides a unique opportunity to complete a comprehensive mixed-use area between ring road and River Don. When finished the wider West Bar area will provide well over 10,000 jobs, nearly 1000 apartments and a network of cafes, bars and other facilities all arranged around attractive landscaped streets and squares.
West Bar also provides a vital link between its adjacent neighbourhoods, thriving Kelham Island, an emerging revitalised Castlegate and the established Cathedral Quarter in the northern sector of Sheffield City Centre.
West Bar comprises over 7 acres of development land assembled by Urbo to create an exciting new neighbourhood. This provides a unique opportunity to complete a comprehensive mixed-use area between ring road and River Don. When finished the wider West Bar area will provide well over 10,000 jobs, nearly 1000 apartments and a network of cafes, bars and other facilities all arranged around attractive landscaped streets and squares.
West Bar also provides a vital link between its adjacent neighbourhoods, thriving Kelham Island, an emerging revitalised Castlegate and the established Cathedral Quarter in the northern sector of Sheffield City Centre.
New pedestrian friendly routes connect the development with the rest of Sheffield City Centre, and the Riverside Business Quarter. City Centre shops are 5 minutes walk away.
Junction 33 of the M1 motorway is a 5 minute drive, providing easy access to all other major UK cities and key airports
Sheffield is one of the few cities to have a tram system as a key element of its public transport.
Sheffield Railway Station is only a 10 minute walk or a short taxi ride away. Travel time to London from Sheffield is only just over two hours, with trains running to the capital every 30 minutes.
Five international airports are accessible within an hour’s travelling time – Manchester, Leeds-Bradford, East Midlands, Doncaster-Sheffield and Humberside.
“West Bar is a key site and an important part of the wider transformational plan for Sheffield city centre, linking the thriving community at Kelham to the huge development taking place at Castlegate. I am pleased to see that development is proceeding having secured very significant investment, creating new jobs, much needed new homes and economic prosperity.”
It is served by regular direct trains, putting London just over two hours away, Manchester only 50 minutes away and Leeds within 40 minutes.
HS2 would cut journey times to London from Sheffield to little more than an hour.
International visitors benefit from Sheffield being within an hour’s drive of five major airports, including Manchester, Doncaster-Sheffield, East Midlands, Leeds-Bradford and Humberside.
£600 million worth of infrastructure improvements have already identified, including an extended airport link road to Doncaster-Sheffield airport.
