Sheffield’s Park Hill, once dismissed as a folly but now the setting of a hit musical, saved the city from its homes crisis
Park Hill was in the news again last week. Nothing unusual in that. The Sheffield Corporation’s housing estate, consisting of 1,000 flats, which overshadows the station and sprawls across the hills of the city’s industrial south-west, is regularly mentioned in Britain’s newspapers.
It was the nature of last week’s comments that came as a surprise. Some got close to being complimentary about what they once dismissed as folly born out of architectural hubris combined with an admiration for the brutalist housing developments in Soviet-occupied eastern Europe.
