Regeneration

Investing in Hoyland

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About Hoyland

Do you love browsing independent shops or having a catch-up over a cuppa or a pint? How about supporting planet-saving projects or getting active? Whatever you love to do you’ll find Hoyland well worth a visit.

Browse the market stalls, visit the modern and welcome library or take a stroll to pretty, nearby Milton Pond. You could also have a look around the volunteer-run community garden Owd Martha’s Yard.

How we've invested in Hoyland

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Hoyland Town Square

We carried out major improvements to Hoyland Town Square to make it more welcoming and attractive. We did this under the Principal Towns and Local Centres Programme.

The works included repaving, landscaping and painting. We also installed new seating and power points for market stalls and laid a commemorative flagstone.

Owners of nearby businesses have welcomed the changes to the square, which will be used to host public events.

Hoyland Town Square in the sun

Image: Hoyland Town Square

Shop front grants scheme

This scheme helped hundreds of businesses across Barnsley to refresh and update their signage and shop fronts.

In Hoyland and Hoyland Common, 68 shops were improved with investment of:

  • £156,000 from the council
  • £63,000 of match funding from business owners
Hoyland shopfront

Image: "Polished" new shop front

Public realm and safety improvements

We improved the access to Duke Street car park with a new footpath and a dropped kerb. We also:

  • removed gates next to High Street which had fallen into disrepair
  • resurfaced the pathway to the Market Street car park and added new bollards to improve public safety
  • installed CCTV to cover all areas of the town centre and reduce anti-social behaviour

Hoyland Community Shop

We worked with the Company Shop Group to bring the former Co-op in Hoyland High Street back into use. It has now reopened as Community Shop Hoyland.

We're happy to have supported this project, as part of our Principal Towns and Local Centres Programme. This has meant we have reopened a prominent building at the heart of Hoyland to the benefit of the community.

The new Community Shop will provide people in Hoyland with a social supermarket, community café and learning and development spaces. This is somewhere they can get advice on budgeting, cooking and gain other valuable skills for life and work.

We co-funded Community Shop bringing the former Co-op building back into use. Our contribution was supported by the UK Government's Household Support Grant.

Visit the store to learn more about signing up as a member. You can also head to the Community Shop website for more details.

Hoyland Community Shop Opening Day

Image: Hoyland Community Shop opening day

 

What we're going to do next

A Town Investment Plan has been drawn up with input from local residents, businesses and councillors. Further projects will be developed in consultation with local people.

 

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