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The Pub Story Broomhill is well supplied with pubs and eating places - mainly aimed at the student body, they include some good, inexpensive eating places. The noise generated by the pubs in the main shopping centre during term time is an issue for local residents - BANG continues to exercise vigilance when there is any proposal to increase the capacity in the Broomhill area. 6000 students are added to the just under 3000 inhabitants in term time - this has a potential to overwhelm the local community unless the balance is right. July 2005 Planning permission is being sought for a new 92-cover restaurant in Clan House, Turners Lane. September
2001 THE PUB STORY
CONTINUES: Residents of Broomhill will remember
that there was agreement that once The Place was
opened there might be some community involvement in
the facilities on offer and that the intention was
that the "site be attractive to a cross-section of
the whole community ... "This was confirmed in a
statement issued by a spokeswoman, following
Whitbread's sale of the pub to Morgan Grenfell. It
would be interesting to hear from Broomhill
residents whether this intention is being
realised. December
2000 The End of the
Pub Story? It now seems that Whitbreads have
acquired the vacant lot behind the Broomhill
Tavern, that they have planning permission and are
to use a legal device whereby an existing licence
is transferred to this site. Building is expected
to start early in the New Year. Exactly what kind
of pub it will be is not yet known. Cafe Culture in
Broomhill - The Fable cafe/bistro in Ashgate Road
is now fully functional and very attractively
furnished. The attached S10 Gallery is also open
and is running a Millennium Christmas Exhibition
from Saturday 2 December featuring 23 artists and
makers. The gallery is open from Monday to Saturday
from 9 am to 6 pm. The coffee shop and bistro opens
Monday to Wednesday, 9 am until 6 pm and Thursdays
and Saturdays, 9 am until 7.30 pm. Competition will
be provided by the new Cyber Cafe and the Espresso
Bar in the Broomhill shopping area. August
2000 The Pub Story
continued.... The West Street ~Varsity" pub opened
on 9 August Wolverhampton & Dudley withdrew
their application for a pub in Ashgate Road, but
Fable, the Sheffield-based charity supporting
people with epilepsy, which successfully applied to
convert the building on this site into a Cafe/
Restaurant and Art Gallery has to date not
proceeded with its application. So far no work has
started on this site. Similarly, objectors to the
application to build a pub on the second-hand car
sales lot at the corner of Nile Street and Peel
Street await news of when a date will be fixed for
the hearing at the Crown Court. On the pub scene
O'Neill's on Fulwood Road, Broomhill withdrew its
application for a public entertainment licence
which would have allowed them to extend the opening
hours from 11 pm to midnight on Friday and
Saturday. The application was withdrawn before it
could be considered by councillors. June
2000 BANG members
will remember that the first planning application
for a pub was put in by the Wolverhampton &
Dudley Breweries plc, which also applied to convert
the office block on Ashgate Road near the junction
with Glossop Road and to build a "Varsity" pub on
West Street. This latter application was approved,
a licence was granted and the West Street "Varsity"
pub is due to open this summer. Wolverhampton &
Dudley withdrew their interest in the Ashgate Road
site and a separate application from Fable, a
Sheffield-based charity supporting people with
epilepsy, to convert the building into a Cafe/
Restaurant and Art Gallery was approved. So far no
work has started on this site. The application to
build a "Varsity" pub on the second-hand car sales
lot at the corner of Nile Street and Peel Street
was approved by the planning committee but turned
down by the Licensing Magistrates in November 1998.
Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries lodged an
appeal against this decision, which was dismissed
in the Crown Court. Following this Whitbreads came
on the scene and put in an application for a
licence for the same site, planning application
having been granted. This was heard by the
Licensing Committee at a special hearing on 6th
June 2000 and rejected, thanks to the spirited
objections of BANG members and local residents. It
remains to be seen whether Whitbreads will pursue
the matter still further. The application
for an Espresso Bar at 259 Fulwood Road was turned
down. Since then the application for the use of the
building at 98 Whitham Road (Wollerton's) as a
Cyber Cafe has been accepted. March
2000 An Ashgate Road
Cafe/Restaurant and Art Gallery The proposal
for a Varsity pub to be built on the empty car
sales land on the corner of Chandos Street and Peel
Street was finally turned down after an appeal by
the Wolverhampton & Dudley Brewery was lost in
the Crown Court. A full copy of the judgement is
available. There would appear to be interest in
other uses for the site. Those still interested in
the Varsity Pub Concept can watch one being built
on West Street, where the application by the same
brewers was successful. BANG members will also
remember that Wolverhampton & Dudley had an
application in for a pub at 9-13 Ashgate Road. This
application was suspended to allow an application
from Fable, a Sheffield based charity supporting
people with epilepsy. This application was for
alterations and extensions to the existing building
to form a ground floor cafe/restaurant and art
gallery, first floor artists' workshop and offices
and second floor shared living accommodation.
Councillors approved a revised scheme, although
they insisted that the cafe closes at 7 p.m. to
avoid noise and disruption for people living
nearby. Italian Cafe
Life on its Way to Broomhill? This was the
headline in the Sheffield Telegraph of 3 December
1999 referring to an application to use the ground
and basement floors of a building at 259 Fulwood
Road as a delicatessen and espresso bar. This
former dress shop could be an asset to Broomhill as
a Remo's espresso bar and delicatessen, however
doubts have been raised as to the suitability of
the building with its narrow entrance passage. In
Broomhill there is also always the residual fear
that this may develop into yet another takeaway as
happened when the Toppoly pizza restaurant which
never opened as such became the Millennium takeaway
opposite Northern Sole. Dec.
99 The Nile Street
& the Ashgate Road Proposals Italian Cafe
Life on its Way to Broomhill Aug.
1999 Plans in the
balance June
1999 New row over
plan for pub in city suburb March
1999 Application for
Licence for a "Varsity" Public House Dec.
1998 Application for
the Erection of a Public House, Peel Street, Nile
Street and Chandos Street. FURY AS PUB IS
ALLOWED BY COUNCIL Aug.
1998 Another Public
House for Broomhill Lists, with
over three hundred names of local residents,
appealing against this application were sent to the
Head of Planning, Transport and Highways, for the
attention of the Planning Committee. One BANG
member in Chandos Street submitted a long and
detailed letter arguing against the granting of
this application and other objections have also
been lodged. The Planning Committee has made no
progress on this application. Dec.
1997 There is an
application to alter Trueloves, 188-192 Whitham
Road, into an off-licence, by Greenalls Cellar
Ltd., but the Magistrates have refused to grant a
licence, so unless there is an successful appeal it
is unlikely that they will proceed. The owners of
Truelove are retiring so we are likely to have
three more empty shops. The latest
application is for a variation of the opening hours
conditions for the Padrino Pizza Parlour, 267
Fulwood Road, to enable them to stay open until
3.00 am on Wednesdays to Saturdays. BANG is
strongly opposing this extension on the grounds of
disturbance to nearby residents, added pedestrian
and vehicular traffic and yet more litter. There is
an increasing tendency for takeaways to stay open
until the early hours of the morning in order to
attract custom from returning night clubbers. It
needs vigilance and action from residents to report
any breaches of opening hours. May
1995 The Broomhill
public houses are expanding with applications from
the Nottingham House, from the York - to take over
the premises currently occupied by the greengrocer
Knight, and from the Grindstone. Feb.
1995 The application
for a food kiosk/tea garden using the former public
lavatory building at the Glossop Road/Clarkehouse
Road junction opposite the Hallamshire Hospital has
been granted planning permission. The proposed
restaurant/takeaway at 261-263 Fulwood Road has,
however, been refused. Nov.
1994 There is an
application (94/1240P) for the use of 261-263
Fulwood Road as a restaurant/takeaway, by TIA Depot
Stores Ltd. We have objected to this application on
the grounds that there are already 19 outlets for
takeaway food, two restaurants and four public
houses in Broomhill, with one restaurant and three
cafes on that stretch of Fulwood Road. August
1994 An application
to turn the former public toilets at the junction
of Clarkehouse Road and Glossop Road, opposite the
Hallamshire Hospital, into a hot food takeaway and
tea garden has resurfaced. |
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