Meet Catherine Fletcher, one of the first residents to move into the refurbished Park Hill…

“When I first started looking at Park Hill it reminded me of a building I had seen in France many years ago and I spent quite a lot of time online looking at the history of the building and finding out as much as I could.

“I think these flats are a really exciting project from a historical and social perspective but also they are a great space for living in. It is pretty rare to find flats with dual aspect and two floors but these flats manage that and they offer some great views of Sheffield.

“I’ve set my office room up to face out across the city and it is wonderful to have such an impressive view to look out over while I sit working away on my laptop. A lot of my colleagues from the University where I work have been extremely interested in me moving to Park Hill because, of course, they know so much about the history of the place and its reputation. I can’t wait to invite them round to show them what the new apartments are like and how Park Hill will be in the future.”

Homes at Park Hill are available to buy from £90,000. Get in touch with our sales team to arrange a viewing and find out more.

Meet James Mills and Emma Stobbs, one of the first couples to move into Park Hill. We love what they’ve done with their apartment!

James: “I remember seeing Park Hill for the first time when I came to Sheffield on business a few years ago and although I was impressed by the building, I never once imagined or thought that I would live here.”

“Emma and I saw that Urban Splash were involved in the redevelopment and as an architect I was aware of their previous work and with that in mind we decide to take a look at the show flats. They were pretty much everything we expected them to be from Urban Splash and I think we quickly realised that it was the place for us.”

Emma: “We have had a bit of a mad few weeks since moving in and the flat is now starting to look how we want it to. We couldn’t wait to move in and we’d even drawn up detailed plans of all the rooms and how we wanted to decorate them. They are starting to look pretty close to the drawings we did and it’s very exciting to actually be living at Park Hill.”

James: “We are getting married later this year so Park Hill will be our first home as a married couple. It is a really exciting time in our lives and we are thrilled to be one of the first residents at Park Hill. We can’t wait to meet our neighbours and to see how they have kitted out their apartments and we really hope to be part of a thriving new community here in the first block.”

Homes at Park Hill are available to buy from £90,000. Get in touch with our sales team to arrange a viewing and find out more.

As I’ve lived in Sheffield all my life the brutalist structure of Park Hill has been what you see when you look out of the city with it’s yellowing concrete facade and chunky blocks fading into the hillside behind the train station. When I first took an interest in photography I went through the ‘urban environment’ phase and my Dad would take me up to the flats to gather images of cracked walls, graphic compositions and that all-too-familiar ‘gentlemen’ lettering on blue tiles.

As a photographer I’ve become even more familiar with Park Hill in the last few years; it’s been used as a backdrop for so many points in popular culture such as The Arctic Monkey’s ‘When the Sun Goes Down’ video, it inspired ‘The I Love You Bridge’ lyrics by The Crookes and of course held photoshoot after photoshoot - including a few of my own.

Now when you look across to the East from the city centre it appears as though it’s on fire - a colourful gradient from red to yellow rises from the ground, punctuated by a stunning spiral of shiny polished steel and if you get a little closer the graffiti is brought to life in neon lights.  I shoot primarily on location, and as soon as I saw the bare concrete walls and natural textures that sit next to them I knew I’d have to take advantage. Max at Ideology (Devonshire Street) wanted something simple & strong with a subtle link to Sheffield in there - we knew we’d be using creatives that are based here & we wanted to push that a little further.

Altogether we photographed 24 looks (that’s a lot in one day!) using an empty show flat as our main backdrop and used entirely natural light. The light in a room is the first thing I look for/notice because I think it makes so much difference to how you experience a place - obviously in a living space the more natural light you have the better and Park Hill is full of it. Inside you feel a sense of rawness and that you’re a part of something bigger, but with a comfortability that allows a sense of ownership & means you can make your mark too.

The view is quite possibly the best bit; you look over the best city in the world with a whole load of sky above it and pick out the other key Sheffield landmarks and feel absolutely at home.

India

India Hobson is a photographic artist based in Sheffield - find out more about her work at indiahobson.co.uk and indiahobsonweddings.co.uk