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to bet before the development is compromised, with the first renovated apartments for sale in October

For many people in Sheffield in recent decades, Park Hill was the last place you would end up living as a social tenant. Therefore, it seems that nothing short of a miracle that some 1,000 people have expressed interest in buying an apartment in the urbanization of the Great War, two weeks before the houses, even on sale.

is, in fact, the first indication of a game very ambitious £ 100 in the rehabilitation of the most underrated of architectural styles, the brutality of war, could bear fruit. For over 50 years of Park Hill was one of the most famous of Sheffield - or, depending on your point of view, notorious - landmarks, threatening huge and gray on a hill overlooking the city center. It was designed in late 1950 by Ivor Smith and Jack Lynn, a pair of idealistic young modernists, and replaced a bad slum bombed.

while maintaining a fixed budget, the model incorporates a number of innovative ideas, including blocs for the sharpness from 14 to four mills in the siege was lifted, giving a roofline continuous levels, and a network locking famous "The streets in the sky" -. ascending paths wide enough for milk floats

Park Hill was initially popular, but his fortune was reduced, due both to the design - the streets in the sky turned out to be an ideal escape route for criminals - and poor maintenance and the gradual replacement of the original inhabitants of tenants in the short term and problem families.

for 1980 Park Hill had a reputation not entirely deserved, as a prohibited area decrepit. Probably the only thing saved was the decision of English Heritage in 1998 to grant a property highly protected Grade II * listed.

This in turn left Sheffield City Council with an aching head. Not only was banned from the demolition of Park Hill, the list meant the possibility of renewal has been severely limited

Finally, the Council has signed an agreement with Urban Splash, a developer who has turned his name long neglected Victorian warehouse in central Manchester homes desirable.

After a tortuous and unstable economically project seven years, 8 October the first 52 of a possible 874 apartments will be released, with another 26 available through a housing association. The developers also want to cafes, shops and other businesses that occupy commercial units.

In a statement deliberately, the first new block is directly facing the city. While only a handful of show apartments have been completed, the exterior elements and a face completely transformed -. Collapse of the concrete structure cleaned and repaired, space and extent of window replacement brick walls dirty anodized metal panels in a cascade of vibrant colors

Urban Splash said he was "delighted" with the response, with nearly 1000 people have registered to receive information before the first sale, and a strong business interest.

Park Hill is reborn with success - far from a certainty for a project that required a public bailout - which completes a full circle 50 years for the property and indicate a possible change to greater public these plans after the war.

While a handful have been adopted by private buyers, including Trellick Tower in North Kensington and Keeling House in Bethnal Green, these are smaller scale and, especially, in some fashionable areas of London.

Tom Bloxham, Urban Splash who runs, said he believed that tastes have changed. "There was a time used to demolish Victorian mansions just because I was a little wet and the windows were rotten sounds crazy now, and would have been madness to demolish Park Hill. Park Hill is a historical building, and not only in terms of subjective taste.

"The project seemed to start with the premise that they had to change radically Park Hill if people will like it and move backwards, instead of saying" This is very interesting and very good design, and the problem is that he was poor and shabby, "said Catherine Croft, director of the Company from Century 20.

architects and developers, however, say that such was the reputation of Park Hill - its visibility throughout the front of the crumbling city meant a shortcut to a greater decrease in Sheffield - . A major makeover was vital and visible
But the long history and the combination of the estate is held in some places, most visibly the maintenance of a famous piece of graffiti on a concrete sidewalk from the hospital, "I love u to get married with me "now recorded in neon and illuminated at night.

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