The Rose Garden Cafe’s public renovation consultancy has come to an end after receiving 1557 responses.
Sheffield’s Rose Garden Cafe’s public consultation for the restoration of the National heritage site has come to an end following a 15-month campaign after being closed for demolition in October 2022.
The cost of the renovations are unknown so far, however local councillors have committed £25,000 and £10,000 has been raised through donations already. More community fundraising campaigns will be launched.
Andy Kershaw from the Save the Rose Garden Café campaign said: “We are hoping for a fully restored and refurbished café, which can be used by walkers, parents park, children, disabled people, and the whole community of Sheffield.”
Public consultation is a requirement of the funding for the café so that they can ‘future proof it for future generations’.
He says: “The consultation returns will very much influence the design and refurbishment of the café, although we are quite clear that we want the visible exterior to resemble very much how it is today.”
The café was closed and due for demolition in July of 2022 after ‘structural concerns’. After the renovation was confirmed a rose garden café partnership was set up.
The Rose garden café partnership is made up of the council, the operator, the Friends of Graves Park, and the Save the Rose Garden Café Campaign, working with officers from different departments of the council itself.
Graves Park was bought for the people of Sheffield by J G Graves, from 1925 to 1936. At this time, it was named after Sheffield’s benefactor.
Before this, it was known as Norton Park and was the parkland for Norton Hall. Norton is recorded in the Domesday Book in 1087 and the estate is first recorded in 1002, with the earliest known reference to its ownership contained in the Last Will and Testament of Wulfic Spott in the year 1002.
For more information visit:
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/RoseGardenCafeGravesPark