Penistone & Stocksbridge

& STOCKSBRIDGE

PENISTONE

The Sheffield Housing Conversations

INTRODUCTION For six weeks, masters students from the University of Sheffield have collaborated with South Yorkshire Housing Association on...

We saw housing rise to the top of the political agenda in 2015. The Sheffield Housing Conversations will provide platforms to discuss impacts and explore solutions by hearing about ideas, opinions and experiences of the issues surrounding housing.

The following booklet is an overview of our findings of the issues facing people in Penistone & Stocksbridge ward.

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BACKGROUND The following document contains information gathered during six weeks from 25th September 2017 to 3rd November 2017. It is an archival snapshot of the opinions, discussions and conversations which were recorded during this time. This document aims to highlight the key housing issues discussed by people across Sheffield, acting almost as an ethnographic piece of research in understanding the shared and learned patterns of values, behaviours and beliefs of a culture sharing group. We recorded 226 conversations during this period and we are aware that, as less than 1% of the population of Sheffield, our results and findings may be limited. We coded and indexed our dialogued information to draw out the common themes and trends, however we are conscious that as qualitative information, these are only opinions and not facts. As a group of 15 students, it is key to acknowledge that each of us are different and come with different experiences of housing and this may have influenced the conversations we had and thus the results which we gathered.

It is also important to explain the different colours used in the document and the corresponding theme: pink (connection), red (community), green (affordability), dark blue (issues around housing), light blue (environment) The Sheffield Housing Conversations

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WHO DID WE SPEAK TO?

ADULTS

SEMI &

PRIVATE

HOUSES

RENTERS

6 PEOPLE

LIVING IN

FLATS TERRACED

DETACHED

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RETIREES

& SOCIAL

PENISTONE & STOCKSBRIDGE

BRIGHTSIDE & HILLSBOROUGH

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COMMUNITY

SPIRIT

QUIET

we love...

AMENITIES

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AMENITIES

LONG WAIT FOR

HOUSING

FAR FROM CITY CENTRE we’d like to change...

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WHAT ARE PEOPLE

SAYING? “I’ve lived here all my life. We should do away with housing associations, and make it “There’s a really great just council housing. community People where I live, lots of lovely shouldn’t make money from people it. There’s a and cats! long wait It’s quite a quiet area, for housing and it’s not and I have a efficient. lovely house People stop overlooking building and the park.” stop selling.

It’s a cycle”

“We live really far north in Sheffield…. About as far north as you can before it “I think council becomes Barnsley! rent is affordable.

We have a council I’ve lived in council flat, it’s really flats most of my small.

Houses in life. My house the UK are really has just been small in general, refurbished after but especially 40 years. I really ours. It’s also like where I live, really far from the but I think there “I love the city centre, which should be more area. It’s means we have council houses setting is to travel for a long - the right to buy beautiful and long time to get scheme wasn’t the it’s got good what we need” right thing to do.” amenities.”

ECCLESFIELD HIGH GREEN

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GOOD COMMUNITY

OUTDOOR SPACES

SMALL HOUSES

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WHAT CAN WEHallam CONCLUDE? Central

People in more affluent wards, in and , acknowledge that Sheffield is a divided city. However, no one from less affluent wards in South-East and Hillsborough & Brightside areas made comments about Sheffield being divided. Does this suggest that those in positions of comfort have the luxury of seeing what the problems are and those who are affected by housing issues struggle to identify that there is a wider issue?

Only people in Heeley cited housing as a positive of their area. The positives of most constituencies were regarding community and location. Should councils be taking more pride in the care and service of housing?

Hallam, Central, Heeley all are perceived as having issues with affordability of housing.

Hallam, Central and Hillsborough & Brightside are all perceived to have a shortage of housing supply.

Generally, we found that despite people thinking the housing crisis doesn’t affect them, they then unconsciously proceed to list reasons that they are being affected by the housing crisis. They cited issues of not having access to affordable housing, not being enough houses and there not being enough quality housing.

Essentially people don’t know what the housing crisis really is.

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The Sheffield Housing Conversations