Having starred in BBC’s hit Manctopia documentary on Manchester’s billion pound property boom in 2020, the co-founder of social impact developer Capital&Centric is no stranger to the limelight.
Tim Heatley is back on TV screens for Channel 4’s new interior design series, The Big Interiors Battle, but this time the spotlight will be on Sheffield.
Passionate about social mobility, it seemed fitting for Sheffield to be the focus of the show as budding interior designers battle it out to win a £250,000 apartment in Capital&Centric’s Eyewitness Works building.
“There’s a story to tell about Sheffield,” Heatley told Prolific North. “It’s a bit of an undiscovered, untapped, lesser known city that should be right up there in the spotlight.”
Famed for regeneration projects across the North West – from Kampus in Manchester city centre to Weir Mill in Stockport – he was keen to switch conversations away from Manchester as it’s already a “hot topic city.”
“I was conscious that Capital&Centric aren’t just ever forever to be seen as the Manchester-only company because we’re really not, we do so much elsewhere.”
Although at first there was a bit of hesitation and “humouring” about choosing Sheffield as the location, the production team were “blown away” within minutes of visiting the city and he hopes it’ll be the same for viewers too.
