Park Hill: Who lives here now? BBC News

The giant concrete estate of Park Hill in Sheffield started life as a bustling new home for council tenants in the 1960s. The BBC filmed a landmark documentary there in 1965, interviewing the families who had moved out of slum housing to live in the "streets in the sky". But Park Hill soon took a turn for the worse - it became notorious for its crime and drug problems. The Brutalist building was eventually condemned as a concrete eyesore.
Now, 55 years since it was built, Park Hill is flourishing again. But who lives there now and how much has the place changed?
Video Journalist: Dan Gordon
Producers: Camila Ruz & Susannah Stevens
Researcher: Cebo Luthuli
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[@danandjenphotography4967]

When these blocks are run properly they do work. the problem is in the past they were a dumping ground. Id love to live here, but i bet is not people in need owning them anymore.

[@susangrattan440]

I heard there's a gang now

[@richardburns5925]

@@susangrattan440 there is a gang, a huge gang, of yuppies! It's simply booming, another phase has just been completed, people moving in before they are finished. The cafe and Sheaf Valley park are packed every day. Its amazing the change that gentrification and social cleansing does, this would have worked with Kelvin, being so close to kelham.

[@simonlloyd7557]

I lived on a council estate in the 1970s. It was a shit hole. Utterly depressing. I now live in suburbia, but hopefully I'll make my why out into the sticks, where i can pry what little land we do have in England doesn't get covered in concrete.

[@THOMASCOLTON1]

For real. Council estates are still overcrowded underfunded shit holes. Country living is the utopia.

[@ehjtb]

Whoever subtitled this video needs to get down from their high horse. It comes across as though you're trying to one up the people speaking. Just leave the wording exactly how they're said.

[@markymarcus5752]

But wheres the the sense of community that the old Park Hill was all about?. No shopping area or pubs from what I see. Just posh boxes for people to hide themselves in.

[@MajorCaliber]

They'll be back, now that peeps with money to spend are nearby.

[@FrenchieBCG2010]

There is now a pub!

[@markymarcus5752]

@@FrenchieBCG2010 yeah the pearl just opened, very pricey from what I've heard 🤔

[@renegade-master29]

I was born into poverty I was born on Park Hill and this is how it ends

[@Randomaited]

I love these big brutalist housing developments. I think they're actually really pretty.

[@silverbullet2008bb]

Should have gone to specsavers

[@joannehowe7513]

I like the idea of a community living and everything being onsite but I think people want their own space and not living on top of each other.

[@zoompt-lm5xw]

I love it too. I love it so much that I think all the poor people should live in one away from us.

[@otnoirhc]

Joanne Howe We have our community on the internet now, no need to live in the same house as your community

[@NoeticInsight]

It looks like a prison...

[@MaxmadV8]

What was she on about putting tin cans and newspapers down the sink?

[@MajorCaliber]

Yeah, for real, it was a wild setup called The Garchey System, used all over the UK, but not so much anymore. It didn't grind these objects up, it just flushed them through a large (6-inch) diameter pipe down to a collection tank in the basement of each building, where they got a bit of pre-cleaning before further nastiness ensued... it was "Space Age" and "futuristic"... didn't even have to walk to the rubbish chute... lol.

[@arklife99]

@@MajorCaliber it was never used on parkhill not duringnor after the 90sb

[@smokey7930]

why subtitles?

[@tanteedelgard1921]

For foreigners like me. ;)

[@Life_Of_AL]

Because, “be reyt”

[@raykenley]

It was the wrong kind of people that the council moved in to created slum of Parkhill, not the building itself. Glad they were all evicted and families moved to better housing.

[@jackyblue67same10]

I would love to live there .

[@asa1973100]

These developments only become decent places to live with gentrification and thousands of develop development investment put in then nothing like what the council would do ever look at the Barbican now with Fountains in the gardens barbecue areas et cetera nothing like the paper they were intended for

[@MTB455G]

I think its called 'unaffordable housing' .... ;-)

[@Secret19977]

They should have kept park hill in use and gave them to the homeless instead of clearing it for the sake of it

[@winstonchurchill586]

Nah they should give them to people who work but are on a low wage, they deserve help more than people who won’t work

[@sandro82sorrow31]

We all know that..

[@michellemcgoran4873]

Hiya x

[@soundseeker63]

The development its self was, and still is, huge, hideous and rather soul destroying, "streets in the sky" idea or not. That being said, if they have been fitted out nicely inside and people want to make another go of it then fair play to them. At least you don't have to look at it when you are inside. I expect with what it will cost to live there nowadays it will be a very different demographic that live there now than in it's previous itteration, so the social consequences should (in theory) be quite different, what with affluent middle class types CHOOSING to live there rather than the socially and economically deprived being dumped there. Good luck to them. But it was, and always will be (as most of these 1950s/60s public housing schemes were) a cold, hard concrete eyesore of a building, grade 2 listed status or not!

[@George-jn7qn]

first 😂

[@PrincipleMcvicker]

A bunch of people that shouldn’t be… what a mug things that’s a nice place

[@Leoturner2009]

Nice that they have done them up but they look crap they looked better before

[@ssebitaabawamala6861]

I do and am proud to be ....because my University is just a walking distance away plus all public services...

[@cgisarecrap]

Given 'listed status' ( ha! ) then given heritage money to do it up, then sold on to private tenants. What a scam.

[@simonlloyd7557]

Lets list them and give that list to the Luftwaffe.

[@Juliukas101]

That teacher was very camp!