Coun Ben Miskell says Fargate, Sheffield, revamp will be 'substantially finished' by end of February, after almost two years.
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00:00So we're on the top half of Fargate at the moment and as you can see this area is coming back to life.
00:06You've got Christmas markets that are happening here.
00:09That's what we are going to be seeing over the next few weeks, that this space is going to be activated once more.
00:15We've got a new event space that's going to be opening up.
00:19So the ground has been dug up and it has caused short-term disruption to put in lots of new utilities
00:25to make sure that there's opportunities to connect up street stalls to power.
00:29We know that we can hold all sorts of different events
00:32and we also know that we are going to be at a larger complete by the end of February.
00:37So we have seen short-term pain but this is really for long-term gain to really regenerate the city centre.
00:44But a lot of people have commented about some of the barriers
00:48and it's been great that people can see the work to see actually what's happening on the street.
00:53Normally in construction schemes like this you often get a big physical barrier here that you can't see behind.
01:00We've had to put in very different type of railings because these have had to move
01:06and that's because the street continues to be active.
01:09People need to be able to get access to the shops, those barriers move around the street
01:13and as a result people see the progress of the work and they see it every day.
01:17And I can understand why sometimes that creates a little bit of confusion
01:21because they do constantly move as a result of needing to be able to facilitate shops to continue to trade.