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Chapeltown Residents ready to ‘put up a fight’ Excellent
Strawberry Fields: 549 new homes earmarked on greenbelt land east of Chapeltown Rd
'The council has sold us down the river' Jo Tunstall , Save Chapeltown Greenbelt Group 11 Page
More than 2,500 furious residents from Chapeltown, Sheffield, have signed a petition to prevent the council’s ‘devastating’ plans to build 1500 new homes and industrial buildings on green belt land in S35.
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Ecclesfield School, locally known as the ‘Strawberry Fields’ earmarked for 549 houses by Sheffield City Council. Jo Tunstall, 54, has lived in Chapeltown since 1997. Yet, with the announcements of the new buildings, she is ‘deeply concerned’ at the impact it will have on the community, and has setup Save Chapeltown Greenbelt Group.
Three sites for industrial / warehousing have been earmarked on land between Warren Lane and the M1, Hesley Wood and Jumble Lane, totalling over 47 hectares. With land opposite Full Story page 11