Next phase of works – August 2025

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.