Plans lodged for former HSBC Sheffield site

Plans for a mixed-use residential and student development on a site on Hoyle Street in Sheffield, where HSBC was based, have been submitted to Sheffield City Council.

Mace has submitted a planning application to bring a neglected part of Sheffield’s industrial heritage to the fore, making the iconic Grade II listed cementation furnace on the site the focal point of the development.

The residential element of the project includes 247 build to rent units, made up of studios, one bed and two bed flats all set around a landscaped courtyard. The student scheme will consist of 658 student beds, comprising studios, cluster flats and townhouses, which also benefit from dedicated, private open space.

HSBC left Hoyle Street in 2016, moving staff to Griffin House on Silver Street Head ahead of the firm’s move to a new building on Charter Square – Grosvenor House, which will be part of Sheffield’s Heart of the City II project.

It has been designed by Jefferson Sheard Architects, working out of their Sheffield office, and CBRE has advised Mace on planning.

David Grover, Mace’s chief operating officer for development, said:  “We have worked hard to design a scheme which places Sheffield’s industrial heritage at the heart of our proposals. As well as bringing forward modern student housing and new homes for Sheffield, the designs are sympathetic to the local area and will give the iconic cementation furnace a new lease of life as the centre piece of the site.”