By Anonymous One of Britain's largest brownfields is being lined up for an overhaul the size of Sheffield, focusing on landscape, lakes and woodland. Proposals for the 4,000-home community on 300ha of land in South Yorkshire were submitted to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council last week.

By Anonymous Wakefield Council has granted planning permission for UK Coal to develop 917 homes and a business park on the former Prince of Wales Colliery site. The 121ha scheme in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, will also include shops, restaurants, community facilities and parkland.

Metacafe(R), the world's leading short-form video entertainment site, today announced that Jack Rotherham has joined the company as senior vice president, strategic sales and partnerships.

By Jeni Harvey Two separate "bus rapid transit", or BRT routes, are planned, a "southern" route which would travel along Sheffield Parkway and to Rotherham via Waverley, and a "northern" route which would travel to Rotherham via Meadowhall and underneath the M1 motorway on a new road.The southern route, which is at a further stage of development, could open in 2013 if approval is given by the Department for Transport, which would be paying for the vast majority of the multi- million pound scheme.That route would see new, environmentally- friendly, low-floor buses running regularly from Sheffield city centre, along a bus lane on Sheffield Parkway which would be built in addition to the existing lanes and then through Waverley and Brinsworth to Rotherham and back.To make the service as efficient as possible, there are plans for limited stops on both routes and ticket machines on platforms.As well as linking Rotherham and Sheffield centres which would help the estimated 33,000 peopl

PLANS to build homes and offices on the former Orgreave colliery site in Waverley are to go on show to the public.