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Name: Simon Edge on Feb 13, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Benjamin Boreham on Feb 13, 2010Comments: Please don't let Portland Works become yet another unnecessary redevelopment by those looking for a quick return. The cost is hard to measure but represents a watering down of Britains heritage. At stake is the intangible and unmeasurable treasure which thrives in the hands, hearts and minds of the artisans of Portland Works. They are as endangered in the urban jungle of the modern UK as any species of the rainforest. The local infrastructure will also be stressed by the redevelopment, not to mention an increase in noise and traffic levels. Do we really need YET another glut of chic flats which will look tatty and tastless within a decade?Flag
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Name: Lance Coates on Feb 14, 2010Comments: save it save itFlag
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Name: Lawrence Dugan on Feb 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: M D Critchlow on Feb 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 14, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Spencer Locker on Feb 15, 2010Comments: If this goes ahead it will be a travesty. This is indicative of contemporary greed culture and would result in a great loss, not only for Sheffield but for Yorkshire and the country in general. Lessons should be learned from the recent sale of Cadbury's and the loss of heritage and livelihood. Stop this shambles now and allow a irrelaceable piece of history stay and thrive.Flag
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Name: Iain Robson on Feb 15, 2010Comments: please preserve this unique part of our countrys heritageFlag
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Name: Gavin Barker on Feb 15, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: David Wilson on Feb 15, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 15, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Caroline Mathews on Feb 15, 2010Comments: This is now a unique place and must be kept. It is the last remaining example of what made Sheffield the city it was. Why do so many people want to turn their back on that history?Flag
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Name: Jennie Street on Feb 15, 2010Comments: I object to the proposal to develop Portland Works into flats. It should be maintained as a workshop and studio facility.Flag
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Name: Mary Baxter on Feb 16, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Mouli Start on Feb 16, 2010Comments: The city already has multiple under occupied luxury flat developments and no more are needed. The Portland works are not only a key part of Sheffield's, and Britains, industrial heritage but continues to house thriving industries.Flag
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Name: John Romans on Feb 17, 2010Comments: Can we please keep this historical place for the use it was built for, a place for things to be manufactured by knowledgable craftsmen and women. Why do we have to relocate these artisans to some souless trading estate when this place is suited so ideally. We do not need yet another scad of cookie cutter flats replacing our national heritage. I am all for progress, but this isn't it.Flag
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Name: Corina Dickinson-Taylor on Feb 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Emma Webster on Feb 18, 2010Comments: Portland Works and Stag Works are prime examples of informal creative clusters - the kind of thing the Cultural Industries Quarter would salivate over if they'd set it up themselves. The Council needs to join up its thinking - those who wrote the Cultural Strategy need to pop into the offices of the planning department and have a word. If you want a creative, vibrant city, you need to protect the places that make it so in the first place!Flag
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Name: Michelle Szumowski on Feb 18, 2010Comments: All sheffield is becoming is a city of flats and office buildings which most of them are empty. We hardly have any industtry left as it is. It seems to me that in this resession lots of people have lost jobs through closer. Now this seems not enough they now want people to lose jobs, and companies to build more flats l. It is about time we started to save industry. My husband is employed at portland works he would lose his job.Flag
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Name: Kenneth Stone on Feb 19, 2010Comments: Although I left Sheffield many years ago it is still home to me.I remember many old buildings as a lad in the 40's and 50's which are now no more.Enough is enough no more senseless demolition .The Portland Works MUST be saved.Flag
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Name: John Rogers on Feb 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Peter Bayliss on Feb 20, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: John Clements on Feb 22, 2010Comments: I lived in Sheffield as a child and later in the 1980's. I am now an exile in the south. Returning recently I was astonished at the disappearance of so much heritage from the city. Why is Sheffield trying to make itself like anywhere else when it has a distinctive history and character that many value? Surely there has been enough destruction and development and we can now think about using the city's proud past as the asset it really is, making it a good place for people to live and work in sustainable ways.Flag
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Name: Liz Zijlstra on Feb 23, 2010Comments: Preserve some of the historical character of our city please.Flag
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Name: Mike McDonald on Feb 23, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Kuladitya on Feb 24, 2010Comments: We need to preserve the heritage of Sheffield and not turn it into another bland, boring, 21st century city. Without the character given by its industrial past, Sheffield will not be such an attractive city in years to come.Flag
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Name: Tessa Peasgood on Feb 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Cecilie Browne on Feb 24, 2010Comments: Please let's not lose any more of Sheffield's history and what makes it unique.Flag
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Name: Tina Belton on Feb 24, 2010Comments: I would prefer that this was not housing, but refurbed as workshops for crafts or office space. Tea shop etc. Keeping the original building as much as possible. And also denoting some of it's history.Flag
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Name: Dave Yates on Feb 25, 2010Comments: You never know what you've got until it's gone. There's been far too much corporate vandalism over the years. Portland Works and Sheffield's heritage must be saved!!Flag
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Name: Gill Price on Feb 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Sylvia Helliwell on Mar 1, 2010Comments: this place needs to be saved there are enough flats in sheffield wiyhout converting Portland Works which as been thriving for years and i mean years.Flag
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Name: Jim Rylatt on Mar 2, 2010Comments: I just hope that the council see sense and refuse this development. The fact that it is still home to the traditional industries that made Sheffield a famous name throughout the world should be enough to save it, but we all know that isn't always the case. It is also home to many musicians who have been at the forefront of raising the city's profile in the late 20th and 21st centuries. Again that should mean something. Please don't build flats here to make someone a quick profit. They will be tiny, ugly and landfill within 40 years.Flag
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Name: James Walker on Mar 6, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Chris Pepper on Mar 6, 2010Comments: I feel that enough of Sheffield has already been consumed by private developers looking to turn over a quick buck. I would like to add my name to the petition in order to try and save this thriving public collective for all to enjoy in the future.Flag
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Name: Yhowwiktej on Mar 16, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Yiyzpzhv on Mar 16, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: George Proctor on Mar 18, 2010Comments: Too much of our heritage is being lost without a thought for our history, too much of out traditional skills are being consigned to the back pages of our history. Portland works should be the start of a campaign to save what is left.Flag
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Name: James Green on Mar 18, 2010Comments: Please don't let this happen. Sheffield is bloated with unused flats, and we don't need any more! The Works is a valuable work place for artists and craftspeople and somewhere very much needed in Sheffield.Flag
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Name: Marian Savill on Mar 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Heather on Mar 19, 2010Comments: sheffield doesn't need any more hard to sell, hard to let flats - i think any developers undertaking this would be mad, but on top of that, they'd have to pretty heartless to think that their development warranted the loss of so much business and the places that had been 'homes' to so much local industry, skill and history. in many ways, it makes it worse knowing that if they win, the places that take over are likely to remain empty. So everybody loses... developers should get real - who exactly will want to live there, and why haven't they already bought one of the hundreds of empty places within spitting distance?? save the works - let's show some pride and resilience - not everything can be bought!!Flag
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Name: BRIAN ELLIS on Mar 19, 2010Comments: Bad idea. Sooner or later, the rush to hold all the corporate cards at once will give the rest of us a life in a world we don't care to have a stake in the future of. The idea of progress and redevelopment is good. The destruction of every thriving corner of a desperate city is not. If we're not careful Sheffield will become another Detroit, if it isn't already to some degree...Flag
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Name: Linda Doughty on Mar 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Paul Fletcher on Mar 23, 2010Comments: More flats. Just what Sheffield needs eh?Flag
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Name: Kate Steele on Mar 23, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ruth Sienkiewicz on Mar 23, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Christine Bridges on Mar 29, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Lesley Churton & Jan Taylor on Mar 31, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ernest Lee on Apr 1, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Chris Turk on Apr 1, 2010Comments: Portland Works is a centre for several important traditional crafts which will be lost if this change of use is permitted.Flag