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Canklow

Rotherham

Background

Canklow is 1.5km south of Rotherham town centre and consists of a mixed area of terraced and inter-war housing. The area was included in the South Yorkshire housing market renewal  programme which created an opportunity to:

  • develop new housing
  • replace unfit properties
  • provide accommodation of a type that better fits local housing needs.

Area development framework for Rotherham West

Transform South Yorkshire and Rotherham Council commissioned EDAW to prepare an area development framework for Rotherham West in 2004. This prescribed housing-led development for Canklow and indicated eight separate potential development sites.

South Yorkshire Housing Association acquired one of these sites – site C3. They set out to deliver an innovative scheme with Rotherham Council which would:

  • foster community growth through the provision of new, high quality housing, public realm and community facilities
  • attract new people to the area.

Delivering Design Quality with CABE

Transform South Yorkshire was setting up the Delivering Design Quality (DDQ) initiative to help deliver high quality housing in South Yorkshire, with support from CABE. This included plans for its own sub-regional enabilng resource to support housebuilders and registered social landlords in developing high quality proposals.

CABE agreed to run a short pilot programme in January 2006 to test how this proposed Home Builders Advisory Panel could work in practice.   This involved enabling seven schemes by registered social landlords and local developers across South Yorkshire.