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Name: A Etheridge on Feb 10, 2010Comments: I believe that we should all do our best to ensure that Sheffield's heritage, including it's manufacturing skill-sets, is not lost. There are already plenty of "trendy" flats and appartments dotted around sheffield that are already under-occupied, some of which have already overtaken previous heritage buildings such Wards Brewery. Do we really need any more mindless heritage vandalism?Flag
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Name: Richard Brant on Feb 10, 2010Comments: Enough flats, save our history, save our skills.Flag
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Name: Chris Hobbs on Feb 10, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Gary John Noble on Feb 10, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Stuart Reeves on Feb 10, 2010Comments: Sheffield can not afford to loose any more heritageFlag
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Name: Klive Humberstone on Feb 10, 2010Comments: Portland Works should remain a place of work.Flag
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Name: Chris Taylor on Feb 10, 2010Comments: How on earth will housing on the current site of Portland Works ever make more sense than the current use of the building? See sense and develop the building in it's current use. Creative souls made Sheffield what is was historically. We need to encourage creative and enterprising people so leave Portland Works alone ,unless you are going to invest in the current users and encourage others at the Portland Works site.Flag
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Name: Derek Morton on Feb 10, 2010Comments: ...and the loss of the last working 'Little Mesters' metal trades building in Sheffield, a city built on working metal. Keep an eye on portlandworks.co.uk too!Flag
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Name: Paul Whitaker on Feb 10, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 10, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Stephen Newall on Feb 11, 2010Comments: when its gone,it's really gone...Flag
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Name: Alan J Burke on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Julia Sheppard on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Nigel Bedford on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I have been involved in the past with some of these great tradesmen and I support the save Portland Works from being taken away from us. Going inside is like going back in time, who needs more apartments ? Do we want Sheffield to be remembered as a great apartment city, no we are the Steel City and steel is being worked inside the Portland Works. Let it stay that way Nigel!Flag
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Name: Paul Warrender on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Sheffield does not need any more apartments, certainly not for some time to come (there is currently a large surplus) and certainly not where it neccesitates the demolition of an historic building with a thriving working environment and with the potential to expand with workshops for craftpeople and artists. It goes without saying that the building of 66 flats would have huge logistical problems for things such as parking in an area that already has enough of these problems.Flag
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Name: P J Warrender on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Sheffield does not need any more apartments, certainly not for some time (there is currently a large surplus) and certainly when it neccesitates the demolition of an historic and thriving working community like Portland Works. Portland Works has the potential to thrive further with the facilities to provide workshops for craftspeople and artists. It goes without saying that building 66 flats will have huge logistical problems for things such as parking in an area which already suffers from thease problems.Flag
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Name: Adrian Gregory on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Sarah Horlock on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Save this piece of old Sheffield.Flag
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Name: Dill Young on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Leave something for future generations.....the Germans destroyed a lot of it....the developers the rest....whats left of Sheffield.???? There are enough flats and new business opportunities...Flag
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Name: Scott Bailey on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Rob Lomas on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Daniel Sharpe on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Adele Bailey on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Paul Wiggins on Feb 11, 2010Comments: It would appear most unreasonable to rid this area of a thriving nest of bespoke crafts and industries......just for the likely sake of lining some developers pockets with moneyFlag
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Name: Peter Nicholson on Feb 11, 2010Comments: 66 small flats could be built elsewhere - once the community is gone, the skills are gone, and another UK industry will have gone for ever.Flag
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Name: Jonathan Deval on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Sheffield has always been the heart of the cutlery industry, and the Portland Works the heart of that. Lets preserve what little true Britsih Industry we have left.Flag
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Name: Daryl Baines on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I'm a former long time resident of Sheffield - I lived there for almost 20 years - who now lives in Argentina. I would like to express my horror at the proposals to destroy one of the final examples of Britain's manufacturing heritage. I spent a lot of time in the 1980s campaigning against Margaret Thatcher's scrapping of the nation's industry, and now I can't believe that Sheffield City Council will simply roll over and let this go ahead. This working community needs to be preserved. As for the buildngs themselves, I loath this current trend of turning old historic industrial buildings into flats. In a few years more, Britain will be like a grand old museum - lot's of nice things to look at, but nothing really works anymore.Flag
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Name: Grace Horne on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Steve Greaves on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Richard Parkin on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Sarahjane Allott on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I hope this petition manages to save Portland Works. Good Luck!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Karon Ransom on Feb 11, 2010Comments: what ever do we need more flats for!! makes no senseFlag
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Name: Geoff Wood on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Already objectedFlag
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Name: Jon Collins on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Mick Taylor on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Richard Roper on Feb 11, 2010Comments: There are plenty of other areas to build flats.Sheffield has lost enough of its historic buildings and businesses, it must not lose any more in the name of progess.Flag
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Name: Richard Lavender on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I think there are fewer local places left to appreciate and encourage heritage and local niche trades, and the reason, I reckon, is that they aren't given a chance to thrive again or supported by the council as they aren't seen as being a big earner for them. With the small overheads these businesses have, surely helping them develop would generate more local businesses and interest, rather than wiping it out to bring in more housing...PEOPLE WANT TO GET JOBS NOT FLATS! Fair enough some people will work along the way to create these airy modern day 'eco-ozonelayer friendly solar powered shoe boxes', but who's gonna occupy them if there's no businesses or jobs to get? Council buys them again? Why allow currently saturated market to kill off historic local trades and surely some of these businesses are passed down over generations and now can be simply wiped out by a tescos, carparks, flats or even a PCWorld. Making it easier to spend money you don't have! With all the failing flats projects and buy outs and job losses already I just wonder who makes these decisions and why?!Flag
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Name: Martin Higgins on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Let thriving businesses be? - and please don't destroy communities anymore!Flag
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Name: Nick Downes on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Thomas Robertson on Feb 11, 2010Comments: The legacy of generations of skilled tradesmen. A grounding in what made Sheffield famous, not to mention the work still being carried out there today. To be wasted and turned into flats? There are no words fit for that.Flag
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Name: Nikky Wilson on Feb 11, 2010Comments: I think it would be a huge and irreplaceable loss if the site were to be converted to mainly apartments - why remove what is already there when it is so much in keeping with the history and real purpose of the place. I'm not against change if there are good reasons for it but in this case I think the arguments for conversion are rubbish and I do think we should put more value on wonderful, interesting buildings like this and save them from being lost forever!Flag
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Name: James Joseph on Feb 11, 2010Comments: i am shocked to hear portland works is being closed, shefield is knives and metalwork.will the last tradesman to leave pease switch the lights offFlag
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Name: Richard Coles on Feb 11, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Sean Harman on Feb 11, 2010Comments: It would be VERY shortsighted if Sheffield were to surrender the last vestige of the industry that created the place.Flag
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Name: Niels Ole Graudal on Feb 11, 2010Comments: Portland Works is the essence of Sheffield Industry, closing it down to make flats would be a sad ending of an institution in the history of traditional Sheffield crafts.Flag