Soho Yard
368 Build to Rent Apartments completed and occupied.
Owned and managed by Legal & General.
Masterplan
Flexible future-proofed design…
The development framework for West Bar contains 10 building plots, each with potential for self-contained parking. The plots have been conceived with flexibility in mind in terms of use, exact scale, design and the ability to combine them as larger buildings.
The plots are a starting point for a flexible approach to providing fantastic space for businesses with varying size and use requirements from approximately 10,000 sq.ft up to 165,000 sq ft.
- The largest office floor-plates in Sheffield
- £300m regeneration scheme
- 650k sq.ft. of office space
- 368 residential units delivered with more to follow
- 1M sq.ft. regeneration scheme
Delivered so far…
The first phase at West Bar, funded by Legal & General has been completed.
This comprises No.1 West Bar Square – 100,000 sq.ft. of office space together with 368 high quality build-to-rent apartments at Soho Yard. It also includes major public spaces, West Bar Square and Soho Yard.
It will be followed by a second office building at No.2 west Bar Square and further landscaped spaces and car parking.
Plots
No 1 West Bar Square
Offices.
100,000 sq.ft (9,290 sq m) offices including ground floor retail/leisure space.
Funded by Legal & General.
Fully let to the Department for Work and Pensions, for 2,000 people.
No 2 West Bar Square
Offices.
100,000 sq.ft (9,290 sq m) offices including ground floor retail/leisure space. To be speculatively delivered by L&G and Urbo.
No 3 West Bar Square
Multi Storey Car Park.
450 spaces.
No 5 West Bar Square
Offices.
160,000 sq.ft (14,864 sq m) offices including ground floor retail/leisure space.
Vision
A great new place in the city…
West Bar will be a prestigious new address in the heart of Sheffield City Centre – a place where people meet to do business and much more.
West Bar will be a prestigious new mixed-use neighbourhood in the heart of Sheffield City Centre – a place where people meet to do business and much more.
Our vision is to make the new business address West Bar Square at the heart of the scheme a vibrant, attractive and sustainable new destination, attracting businesses, workers and visitors, day and night.
Whether employers, employees, visitors or residents, people will respond positively to the environs of West Bar. Employers based at West Bar are likely to have better motivated and more productive staff and will find recruiting new people easier in a modern work environment.
The vision for our development is aligned with the Sheffield City Strategy 2010-2020:
“It’s 2020: Sheffield is a city of global significance, distinctive, successful, inclusive, vibrant and sustainable. A great city, where people from across the world want to live, learn, work, visit and invest.”
Offering bespoke large footprint buildings across the 1M sq.ft development, West Bar will bring together high quality, office, retail, leisure, hotel and living space to create a modern campus environment where people will want to be – day and night.
Growing Grey to Green
Sheffield enjoys one of the strongest
green infrastructures of any city in the UK…
Urbo is in the process of transforming and greening the new West Bar neighbourhood building on the previous work of Sheffield City Council.
Wildflowers, bulbs, grasses and trees have already been planted in recent years as part of the £3.6m Grey to Green scheme, to downgrade highways at West Bar and enhance pedestrian and cycle space making the whole area more attractive to residents, workers and investors.
A 650 metre corridor of porous surfaces at West Bar has provided a sustainable solution to surface water drainage reducing run off to the river. An increase in tree street cover and shade has also offset the increasing heat island effect of climate change.
Urbo is now landscaping more than an acre of land at West Bar as part of its development. This will provide a fantastic new green setting for businesses and local residents. It will also serve as break-out space for office workers and attractive outside space for new cafes, bars and restaurants.
Designs by leading Landscape Architects Planit IE will ensure this new extended public realm seamlessly extends the already popular grey-to-green areas.
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Alongside the grey to green development at a gateway to West Bar is the development plot at Love Square. This has been temporarily transformed by Urbo, working with University of Sheffield, into a new type of pop-up urban nature park that is colourful, exciting, beautiful and full of interest throughout the year.
The space was designed for Urbo by the late Professor Nigel Dunnett of the University of Sheffield’s Department of Landscape, who was also responsible for the renowned wild flower meadow landscapes of London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Love Square will be developed as part of West Bar for small offices and a café bar and this building will sit within retained parts of the new landscaped setting.
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Love Square
Alongside the grey to green development is Love Square, a new type of pop-up urban nature park that is colourful, exciting, beautiful and full of interest throughout the year.
Located on the edge of West Bar, on land owned by Urbo, the Love Square project was coordinated by Urbo and the University of Sheffield, working closely with Sheffield City Council and a range of local community groups.
Providing a bright new public space in the city, the space was designed for Urbo by Professor Nigel Dunnett of the University of Sheffield’s Department of Landscape, who was responsible for the renowned wild flower meadow landscapes of London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
