|
|
European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST Action C11 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Case Studies -
Greenstructure and Greenspace in Urban Planning -
Statistics Sheffield
Metropolitan District - Major Greenspace and other
Land Use Statistics Sheffield
MD area :- Landuse
Statistics for Sheffield Metropolitan
District
(MDC) Landuse
Statistics for Sheffield City (the area
included in the Unitary Development
Plan) Base
map - © Crown copyright 2000. All
rights reserved. Licence number: MC 1000
32925 Landuse
Statistics for Sheffield Metropolitan District
(MDC) Landuse
Statistics for Sheffield City (the area included in
the Unitary Development
Plan) This
diagram indicates the height differences
in Sheffield between the highest and
lowest points. The lowest is about 30m
above sea level - where the River Don
leaves the city and flows into Rotherham;
the highest points are on the moors to the
west of the city where the land is above
500m. Much of Sheffield MDC is
undevelopable rural land protected by
National Park or Greenbelt status. The
River Don and its tributaries form the
natural drainage system. Landuse
Statistics for Sheffield Metropolitan District
(MDC) Landuse
Statistics for Sheffield City (the area included in
the Unitary Development
Plan) Topography
of Sheffield The
Sheffield Metropolitan district is unusual
for the quantity of greenspace within its
boundaries - just over a third of the MDC
lies within the Peak district National
Park. Within the National Park the Peak
District Board controls the land-use and
land-management. Sheffield City is
represented on the Board. There
is a very strong presumption against
development within the part of Sheffield
lying in the Peak Park. The land is mainly
moorland used for very low intensity
farming (very marginal economically) and
for recreation (hill walking, climbing,
hang-gliding, riding, camping). Much of
the land is in private ownership or owned
by Water Boards however there is a well
established right to roam over much of it
except in the shooting or lambing
seasons See
figures for Sheffield
City
- excluding the National Park
land Landuse
Statistics for Sheffield City (the area included in
the Unitary Development
Plan)
Sheffield
City is defined here as that area of the
land within the administrative district
which is outside the Peak District
National Park. Here
too there is a high proportion of
undevelopable land where farmland and
moorland of very high landscape and
recreational value has been designated as
Greenbelt. To protect it from development
for the benefit of local people much of
this land was bought by the city of
Sheffield over the last sixty years and is
leased for various land uses. As a
result of its topography, which strongly
controlled the pattern of development (in
this century as well as the past),
Sheffield has an exceptionally large area
of Greenspace (some of which is officially
designated as Parks and other public open
space but the majority of which is
farmland). There
are variations across the city in the area
of domestic garden, depending in the main
on the density of the original development
. Using Stocksbridge District as an case
study for medium density housing, detailed
calculations are presently being made of
the area of garden for different densities
and types and age of housing. These data
will be published here when available, as
will data on higher and lower
densities. Landuse
Statistics for Sheffield City (the area included in
the Unitary Development
Plan) © A.R.Beer
and Map21 Ltd, 2000 Sheffield's
Greenspace - a Case Study
All photographs are © Anne R. Beer, 2003 but users are free to download and use as they wish, with the proviso that the copyright is always acknowledged. Students may use the text as they wish provided they again acknowledge the sources of the text. To view the Case Studies
of other cities click here |
Meetings Background Meetings Background |
Base
map - © Crown copyright 2000. All rights
reserved. Licence number: MC 1000 32925
Further information about some cities is available by
clicking here 
