Sheffield Knowledge Required

[Sportbilly]

Hello All, We're are a family of four living in leafy Staffordshire who are planning a move to Sheffield later this year.

Just wondered if any people from Sheffield can advise accordingly.

We've not enjoyed living rurally, and are hoping to find somewhere in Sheffield a bit more lively with more family stuff to do.

Our ideal requirements would be.

1. Somewhere on or close to the supertram network.
2. The area shouldn't be too quiet, and should have decent family amenities (shops, restaurants, gyms, cinema etc) within close proximity.
3. We'd be looking at a budget for a 3 (4 if affordable) bedroomed house of between 300k and 350k, and could push to nearly 400k of we had to.

Based on those criteria I'd thought about the area around Crystal Peaks on the south side of the city, or perhaps the Walkley or Hillsborough area in the NW.

Norfolk Park also looks transformed but I suspect this still has a bad/dodgy underbelly?

Any comments on the areas above, or any suggested area, would be welcomed.

Welcome (soon) to Sheffield, @Sportbilly
You have a decent budget, I'm sure wherever you choose will be lovely. :-)
I would just echo what a PP said, get a feel for the different areas, I'm sure you won't go wrong.

Sheffield Star (weird, random kind of paper really ... but hey ...)
just named Crookes, Walkley, Broomhill and Hillsborough as 'cool' areas to live.
'Cool '? Not sure.
nice places to live? Definitely.

Definitely NOT Crystal Peaks and I'd avoid Hillsborough. Maybe Walkley although, to be completely honest, it's not somewhere I would personally choose.

S11 (Hunters Bar, Greystones)/S10 (Crookes/Broomhill)/S7 (Nether Edge). In my opinion as someone who has lived rurally and then in London for much of my life, these have the best balance of a nice area with good access to parks/outdoors, restaurants, pubs, great schools and a nice "buzz" without it being dodgy. A 3 bed terrace in Hunters Bar/Greystones/Crookes/Nether Edge should just about be in budget.

With regard to special schools, people are not or should not be "waiting years" for a place, although there is definitely a lack of special provision within Sheffield as there is in much of the country. I am not saying the process to get a place at a special school is easy or quick, but hopefully your son will have an EHCP if he is severely autistic. If so, there are various legal rights that come with one and subsequently gaining a place at school depending on the status of that school. If your son doesn't have an EHCP in place, definitely initiate the process ASAP. Please feel free to PM me if you need any advice!

Hi, this is my first post so not sure if I’m doing it right.

I am 33 weeks pregnant and me and my partner are looking for a place, with how close to the due date is, we need somewhere quick and be have been given two options and I don’t know which one would be a better and safer place to live.

the first one is a upstairs maisonette on s14, I currently live on this area with my parents and it’s not as bad as people make out. The second is on s8 just opposite greenhill parkway and is a downstairs maisonette. I lived on lowedges up until I was 12 however not that part.

I was just hoping I could get people opinions on which area they think would be better and if a upstairs or downstairs one is better.