 The scheme which needs approval from Sheffield City Council also contains proposals for a selection of partially underground eco-friendly bungalows beneath the building.The village has a SSSI within it, created in 1990, it is the site of the Wadsley Fossil Forest, it "“contains a number of in situ fossil tree stumps, two of which have been exposed for many years.They are considered to be the best preserved example in the British Isles of trees which were part of the extensive coal forming swamp forests growing some 300 million years ago”".