- Modest population growth
- Rising property prices
City centre regeneration:
- with new public landmarks such as Peace Gardens and Winter Gardens;
- new bars and restaurants have opened in the city centre, and its population almost doubled to nearly 12,000 in the five years between 2000 and 2005;
- Lower Don Valley: redevelopment of the Lower Don Valley in the 1980s and 90s transformed the landscape of the city’s former industrial heartland from a factory-dominated derelict wasteland to mixed areas of new enterprises.
The Economy:
- Sheffield’s economy continues to shift from its manufacturing base towards a service base, with the proportion of all jobs in the service industry rising from 75.7% in 1995 to 82.8% in 2006. Manufacturing jobs fell from 19.8% of the workforce to 12% over the same period (NOMIS, 2007).
- Job Creation- overall number of jobs in the city has been increasing since 1995, with the total rising from 213,000 to 256,000 in 2005; • Inward Investment; • Skills; • Transport and Connectivity; • More Devolution • Developing the city-region agenda: multi-area agreements.