But for the Sheffield Wildlife Trust the scheme was exactly the right kind of project to get young people from the Norfolk Park estate involved in regeneration.
The estate had undergone large-scale redevelopment, so the charity decided to take "change" as the theme for the Heritage Lottery Fund-supported project.
Stephanie Platt, youth development worker at Sheffield Wildlife Trust, explains: "There used to be 14 or 15 tower blocks on the estate, but they've all been demolished. The young people here have seen a lot of things happening, so we wanted to develop a project that would look back at that change and incorporate the experiences they have had growing up on the estate."
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