As part of the work we are doing on Arundel Gate, we need to resurface a section of the road to improve its quality.

To minimise disruption to bus services during the day, we will do this work overnight on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 April from 12am to 5am. We aim to complete the work in the early hours of Wednesday 29 April.

So our teams can work safely, we will need to close Arundel Gate between Norfolk Street and Charles Street. Our contractor will provide escorted access to homes and businesses, but otherwise a diversion will be in place during the work.

The diversion route for traffic travelling towards Furnival Gate will be:

• past the station via Sheaf Street
• Suffolk Road
• St Mary’s Road
• Eyre Street

Traffic travelling towards Castle Square will need to use:

• Eyre Street
• St Mary’s Road
• Shoreham Street
• past the station via Sheaf Street to Park Square roundabout

If you have any questions about the works, please get in touch via:

• Email: info@connecting-sheffield.co.uk
• 9am-5pm Freephone: 0808 196 5105
• Freepost: Freepost Connecting SHF

We are still working to improve the city centre on Pinstone Street, Arundel Gate, Charles Street and Surrey Street.

Between Tuesday 21 April and 1 September 2026, we need to temporarily close a section of Pinstone Street and a section of Charles Street to vehicles.

This is so we can replace the paving and carriageway in these areas to make them more accessible for everyone.

What is changing?

Pinstone Street will be closed from Charles Street to Cross Burgess Street. We will reopen the section between Furnival Gate and Charles Street now that we have completed work in this area.

Traffic will be able to travel along Pinstone Street from Furnival Gate towards Charles Street, and will then need to turn right into Charles Street and right into Union Street. This is a reversal of the current traffic movements on Charles Street.

There will still be access for loading at Norfolk Street and St Paul’s Place from Charles Street too.

Charles Street will be closed from Arundel Gate to Union Street, but you will still be able to access the Q-Park and loading bays in this section.

Will I still be able to get to where I need to go?

The map below shows the diversion routes that will be in place. This will mean that some journeys will be longer to allow access to all roads, so please make sure you plan ahead if you’re travelling in these areas of the city centre.

Map showing city centre diversion routes

What are the diversion routes?

Access to Cross Burgess Street and Cambridge Street

We will temporarily reverse the one-way system on Burgess Street so traffic can travel towards Cross Burgess Street. This will help drivers access Cross Burgess Street, Cambridge Street and the surrounding areas during the works.

You will be able to access Cross Burgess Street and Cambridge Street using the following route:

• Hanover Way
• Upper Hanover Way
• Broad Lane
• Townhead Street
• Pinfold Street
• Holly Street
• Balm Green
• Burgess Street

Access to Union Street, Norfolk Street and St Paul’s Place

You will still be able to access Union Street, Norfolk Street and St Paul’s Place using the following route:

• Furnival Gate
• Charter Row
• Moore Street roundabout
• Moore Street
• Charter Row
• Pinstone Street

If you need to access Howden House by car, you will need to use the route above.

You can also download a pdf of this map that you can zoom into.

Other important information

We will also soon be making permanent changes to the parking bays along Union Street, Union Lane and Charles Street.

We will convert all the pay and display parking bays to disabled parking bays. Waiting and loading restrictions in the area will still mean that drivers can pick up or drop off passengers.

There will still be loading bays available along Union Street, Union Lane and Charles Street.

Thank you for your patience while we make these improvements.

We are continuing our work on Pinstone Street, Surrey Street and Arundel Gate to create a more attractive city centre environment and make more space for people.

From Friday 8 May, we will be making permanent changes to the parking bays along Union Street, Union Lane and Charles Street to help ensure the city centre is accessible for everyone.

What's changing?

We will convert all the pay and display parking bays to disabled parking bays. But waiting and loading restrictions in the area will still mean that drivers can pick up or drop off passengers.

Although we have had to remove some other disabled parking bays elsewhere during the city centre works, such as along Surrey Street, these changes will mean ther will be more disabled parking bays in the city centre.

From Saturday 16 May, the disabled parking bays will be available to Blue Badge holders and will have a maximum stay of 4 hours, with no return within 2 hours.

These bays will be individually marked at 6.6 metres each. We will also install signs instructing users to keep the first and last bays clear for rear-loading vehicles.

We previously advertised the Traffic Regulation Order for this work in 2024.

The nearest alternative on-street pay and display parking is on Matilda Way, Earl Way and Arundel Street. You can find more information on parking in the city centre on our website.

Loading bays

There will still be loading bays available along Union Street, Union Lane and Charles Street.

Please make sure you plan ahead and check your journey because of these changes.

We will keep this page updated as this work progresses.

If you have any questions about the project, you can contact us using the details below.

• Email: info@connecting-sheffield.co.uk
• 9am-5pm Freephone: 0808 196 5105
• Freepost: Freepost Connecting SHF

We started work on the Connecting Sheffield: City Centre project in February 2025. We’ve been replacing kerbing on Pinstone Street near the Town Hall and replacing footways and creating beds for planting towards the bottom of Pinstone Street near The Moor. We’ve also replaced footways and changed lines and signage on Charles Street, and we’re working on Surrey Street to create more room for outdoor seating for cafes and restaurants, and replacing kerbs and the road surface to make walking, wheeling and cycling easier and safer.

We’re starting the next phase of works in December 2025.

Where will the works be?

Pinstone Street

We’ll complete the footway replacement, areas for planting and carriageway surfacing at the bottom of Pinstone Street near The Moor.

Near the Town Hall, we’ll complete the kerb and footway replacement outside the Radisson Blu Hotel, and begin work on the Peace Gardens side of the street to bring it up to the same standard.

We’ll also start work to replace the footways on the section of Pinstone Street between Cross Burgess Street and Charles Street.

This will bring all the footways along Pinstone Street up to the same standard which will make walking and wheeling easier. And we’ll create a more attractive place for people to spend time.

As we work through this phase, and move around the area, we’ll need to make changes to traffic routes to allow our teams to work safely. We’ll keep you updated nearer the time the changes are needed.

Surrey Street

We’ll continue work on Surrey Street to replace kerbs, road surface and footways to make walking, wheeling and cycling easier. During this phase, we expect to complete the section we’re currently working on, and move further along Surrey Street to work further towards the junction with Norfolk Street.

Charles Street

We’ll begin work to allow some future changes on Charles Street near the Q-Park entrance to improve the cycle route in this area. We’ll also replace the footways on the opposite side of the road outside the Roebuck Tavern, and up around Howden House to make walking and wheeling easier.

Arundel Gate

We’ll replace footways either side of the Novotel entrance on Arundel Gate to make walking and wheeling easier. We’ll also remove an island on the Surrey Street side of the Novotel entrance to make it easier for traffic other than buses or taxis to avoid the bus gate.

We expect this phase of work to be finished in April 2026, and that the rest of the project will be complete in autumn 2027.

All businesses will be open as usual during the works, and we’ll make sure you can access them all.

There are still 9,000 parking spaces available in the city centre, and you can find out more about city centre car parking on the Sheffield City Council website. There’s also information about where you can park if you have a Blue Badge.

The City Centre Cycle Hub is open too, with secure cycle storage in the city centre if you’re heading in by cycle. There’s space for adapted cycles and cargo bikes too, and you can access the city centre and Meadowhall hubs with one subscription. Find out more on the City Centre Cycle Hub webpage.

We’ll keep you up to date here as the works progress.

If you usually get off your bus at Carver Street, we're making some changes you need to know about.

From Sunday 7 December, all services using the Carver Street stop will travel via Rockingham Street instead. They will no longer serve the Carver Street stop.

This is part of our work to make bus journeys into the city centre more direct and more reliable. If you need to interchange to another service like the free Sheffield Connect, you can use the Rockingham Street bus hub to do that. But there will be a new stop on Rockingham Street near the junction with West Street if you need to get to this part of the city centre.

The Sheffield Connect SC1 service will continue to use the bus stop on Carver Street, and you’ll still be able to get on or off that service at this stop.

The services that will travel via Rockingham Street instead of Carver Street are:

6, 30, 30a, 52, 52a, 95, 95S, 120, 120k, 181, 257a, 257b and X30.

The new stop on Rockingham Street won’t include a raised kerb to start with. We want to make sure that the new stop doesn’t conflict with traffic signals in the area. If we wait to put in the raised kerb, it will be easier to move the stop if we need to later. This doesn’t mean that buses will be less accessible from this stop though, as most buses can still lower to the existing kerb height or use a ramp.

For more information or to plan your journey, visit TravelSouthYorkshire.com

As part of our work to make bus journeys into the city centre more direct, and to improve safety in the area, we've installed new pedestrian crossings so there are now safer crossing points across all four arms of the junction of Rockingham Street and West Street. And we're continuing work in this area to allow buses to make the turn into Rockingham Street.

We need to change some of the road markings, including in the new loading bay and taxi bay, outside the Jobcentre on West Street. We'll need to do this work overnight, as we can only work in the area when the tram isn't running. We plan to work overnight on Monday 8 December and Tuesday 9 December. There will be temporary traffic lights in place, and we're writing to residents and businesses nearby with more detailed information about the work, which can be noisy.

Bus services will move from the stop on Carver Street to a new stop that we’ll install at the top of Rockingham Street. You'll still be able to interchange to other services at the Rockingham Street bus hub, including the free Sheffield Connect service. But if you need to be in and around West Street, the new stop will be near the junction of Rockingham Street and West Street. The Sheffield Connect will continue to serve the Carver Street stop. We'll provide more information on this soon.

These changes will make bus journeys into the city centre more direct and give easier access to the Rockingham Street bus hub, where passengers can interchange onto other services including the free Sheffield Connect.

Over the last month, we’ve been replacing kerbs on Pinstone Street near the Town Hall and replacing parts of the footways towards the bottom of Pinstone Street around Charles Street. We're about to start the next phase of works, which will include:

• Replacing kerbs and footways from Cheney Row to Cross Burgess Street on the Radisson side of the street to make walking and wheeling easier.
• Replacing footways and carriageway at the bottom of Pinstone Street from Furnival Gate to Charles Street to make walking and wheeling easier.
• Realigning kerbs on Arundel Gate to help direct traffic towards Charles Street rather than the bus gate. This will also help pedestrians by making crossing distances shorter, improving visibility, and creating more opportunity for additional bus facilities.
• Making the left-turn clearer from Furnival Gate into Matilda Way, to direct general traffic away from the new bus gate being implemented north west bound on Furnival Gate between Matilda Way and The Moor.
• Changing the layout around the Q-Park exit on Charles Street to improve the cycle route that passes the car park entrance.
• Replacing the footways and carriageway on Surrey Street, to make walking, wheeling and cycling easier.

So we can do the work at the bottom of Pinstone Street, we’ll need to close the road to vehicle traffic. Vehicles delivering to the Heart of the City will need to follow a diversion from Furnival Gate to Charles Street via Arundel Gate to access Cross Burgess Street. We currently expect this to be in place during the week of Monday 25 August, but please look out for signage on street.

This will mean redirecting traffic through the Furnival Gate bus gate. Because of this, we won't issue penalty charge notices to traffic driving through the bus gate for the duration of the works. We'll put signage up in the area to make this clear, and we’ll communicate when the works are nearly done and the bus gate will return to normal operation.

Before we open up Charles Street (at the Pinstone Street junction) for access to the Heart of the City, we'll also resurface Cross Burgess Street and Cambridge Street. Although parking restrictions on these roads won’t change, the new surface will be the same red colour that we'll use on Pinstone Street. Cyclists will also be able to use these roads in both directions – so we'll update signage to make drivers aware.

With the new kerbing in place on Charles Street, and it being opened up as a through route to enable works on Pinstone Street, we've reassessed access to the five parking bays in this area. We've decided it would be more appropriate to keep them out of use. We're sorry that this is a change to what we’ve told you before – but the spaces were always due to be removed as part of the final project. On and off-street parking will still be available across the city centre, which remains open for business.

You can find more information about other parking in the city centre on our website: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/parking/city-centre-car-parking

On Surrey Street, we’ll work from Fargate down to 43 Surrey Street, Bird Opticians. We will close the road in this section to outside Bird Opticians, but will keep an area clear for businesses to load and unload while the closure is in place. We will also add new temporary disabled parking bays on Surrey Street, which will be accessible during the works but removed as part of the final scheme. The temporary bays will be available at all times on the Town Hall side and during the evening only on the opposite side.

Following conversations with businesses during consultation, we will advertise a new Traffic Regulation Order to enable the permanent loading arrangement on Surrey Street. We currently expect this consultation to start towards the end of August.

All businesses will be open as usual during the works, and we’ll make sure you can access them all.

We expect to do most of the works during the week, from 9am to 5pm, but we will be working some evenings during weeks commencing Monday 18 August and Monday 25 August to replace the paving on Charles Street. We need to work nights to avoid disruption to businesses as the work is close to entrances.

Although we’ll work in phases, we expect some work to continue in these areas until the project is complete, which we currently expect to be in Autumn 2027.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns, you can let us know by email.

We're progressing well with the work around the junction of Rockingham Street and West Street to make crossing safer for pedestrians. We're also working to enable buses to turn into Rockingahm Street to make public transport journeys into the city centre quicker and more reliable.

We’ve almost finished the works on the footway outside the Jobcentre, and we're starting work outside West Street Live.

After speaking to businesses in the area, we'll complete all the works in this area and outside the other bars nearby during July and August, ahead of Fresher’s week in September. This next phase of works will involve paving the footway (including the old loading bay, which will become part of a widened footway), kerbing, ducting, drainage, and signage.

We won't be working during Tramlines weekend, Friday 25 to Sunday 27 July. For travel information for Tramlines, visit the Travel South Yorkshire website.

We removed the temporary ‘lego bricks’ along West Street on Saturday 12 July, replacing them with alternative measures for now. We also added regular gaps in the fencing around the work site to maintain safety. A more permanent solution is part of this section of works and we expect to install this during the week commencing Monday 21 July.

You'll still be able to access all the premises in the area, and the taxi rank and loading area opposite West Street Live will be useable until September this year.

We started work on the Connecting Sheffield: City Centre project in February 2025. We’ve been replacing kerbing on Pinstone Street near the Town Hall, and replacing footways towards the bottom of Pinstone Street around Charles Street.

This will help to create more space for people, make the area more attractive and support our cleaner, greener, thriving city centre.

We’re about to start replacing the footway on Charles Street itself, on the Post Office side of the road.

Work will start in this area on Monday 7 July, and we expect it to last for around five weeks. To make sure our contractors can work safely, we need to suspend the parking bays on Charles Street while we do these works.

We understand this may cause some disruption, and we apologise for the inconvenience. You can find information on alternative parking in the city centre on the Sheffield City Council website.

We're starting work on Saturday 24 May to change the junction of West Street and Rockingham Street.

We will change the junction with West Street to include pedestrian crossings all around the junction, and to allow buses to turn into Rockingham Street. We'll make the section of Rockingham Street between West Street and Division Street two-way for all traffic, and we will introduce a southbound bus gate between Devonshire Lane and Wellington Street. This will give buses travelling towards Charter Row priority access. It will also make bus journeys into the city centre quicker and more direct, and create a safer environment for pedestrians.

Planned works

We will do the work to enable the changes between Saturday 24 May 2025 and Friday 28 November 2025.

The first phase of the works will replace the kerbs and paving and improve drainage at the junction of Rockingham Street and West Street. These works will take place from Saturday 24 May 2025 to Friday 30 May 2025. We'll work alongside a separate Supertram closure taking place that week to minimise disruption.

Once we've completed these initial works, we'll move to start work on the footway on the side of the junction outside the Bailey Court Jobcentre. These works will take place between Monday 2 June 2025 and Tuesday 1 July 2025. We'll be replacing kerbs and paving here, and adding ducting and street furniture.

We're also planning further works between Wednesday 2 July 2025 and Friday 28 November 2025, We'll keep this page up to date with more details nearer the time.

Managing disruption

We will do the first phase of works alongside the planned Supertram closure. This means we can avoid needing a separate closure, which will reduce the impact on local residents, businesses and road users.

Replacement bus services will run during the tram closure from Saturday 24 May to Friday 30 May. There's more information on these below.

So our teams can carry out the first phase of work safely and effectively, we'll need to use some temporary traffic management. This will include:

• Temporary four-way traffic lights regulating road traffic from each arm of the junction of West Street and Rockingham Street.
• Temporary fences and blocks on the footways as we’re working. We'll only put these up around the sections we’re working in. This will reduce the impact on pedestrians and ensure we can keep footway access along at least one side of the road throughout the works.

You'll still be able to access restaurants, bars and nightclubs near the junction throughout the works.

When we start work outside the Bailey Court Jobcentre between Monday 2 June 2025 and Tuesday 1 July 2025, we'll need to use temporary traffic measures so our teams can work safely and effectively. These will include:

• Closing the footway to pedestrians between 7am and 7pm each day. We'll reopen the footways in the evenings and overnight, and we’ll maintain access to the Jobcentre. You can cross the road using the nearby crossings at Carver Street and outside Tesco Express.
• A one-way closure of the section of Rockingham Street between Portobello Street and West Street for motor vehicles travelling towards West Street. Vehicles will be diverted along Portobello Lane and Mappin Street.

We'll also need to suspend the bus stop outside the Jobcentre so our teams can work on site. Buses will use the nearby stop on Carver Street instead during the works. Once the changes are introduced, and buses can turn into Rockingham Street, we will remove the stop outside the Jobcentre.

We won't need to do any night working as part of this first phase of works.

We'll do all we can to reduce the impact on local residents. We apologise in advance for any disturbance this may cause.

Replacement bus services

While we're working and trams aren't running to Cathedral from Saturday 24 May to Friday 30 May, replacement bus services will run for the Blue and Yellow tram routes. They'll serve some bus stops along the affected routes.

The BL1 service will run between Cathedral and Malin Bridge and the YE1 service will run between Cathedral and Middlewood, serving limited bus stops located near all the affected tram stops along the routes as follows: 

The BL1 and YE1 services will operate:

• Monday to Saturday: every 20 minutes in the early morning, every 12 minutes during the day and every 30 minutes in the evening
• Sunday: every 20 minutes in the early morning and during the day, and every 30 minutes in the evening

The BL1 and YE1 services will operate via Langsett Road during the day and Penistone Road after 7pm.

You can find out more about the replacement bus services and timetables on the Travel South Yorkshire website.

You can use any valid tram or multi-modal ticket to travel on the BL1 and BL2 replacement bus services.

Implementing the changes

We will implement most of these changes initially through an Experimental Traffic Order (ETO), so we can trial them before deciding whether to make them permanent, amend them or remove them.

But we will install some elements, such as the pedestrian crossings, as permanent features straight away through a separate Traffic Regulation Order (TRO).

ETOs can stay in place for a maximum of 18 months while we monitor and assess the effects. You can provide formal feedback on an ETO for the first six months after it’s implemented.

More information and getting in touch

We'll keep this page up to date as the project continues. In the meantime, if you have any questions or comments, you can contact us through the following channels:

• Email: info@connecting-sheffield.co.uk
• 9am-5pm Freephone: 0808 196 5105
• Freepost: Freepost Connecting SHF