Monica Dyson

Monica Dyson recalls Attercliffe's former department stores and nightlife, contrasting its distinctive past with plans for the Attercliffe Waterside Project, which proposes more than 3,000 homes and new jobs. While welcoming safer community redevelopment and affordable housing, she argues that closing established adult venues may push sex workers into more dangerous street-based or clandestine work, exposing them to rape, violence and murder. She calls for attention to the safety and welfare of sex workers during the area's transformation.