Regeneration

KEY SITES DEMAND SEVEN MORE YEARS

Thursday, March 11, 2010

THREE key regeneration projects are suffering from major delays after developers asked for more time to carry out their plans.

Development sites hit by the setbacks include the former Victoria Ground in Stoke, the Chatterley Valley business park near Tunstall and the...

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Privatising jobs still on future agenda

SCRAPPED: How we reported the job switch on Friday.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

THE decision to scrap the privatisation of up to 900 council jobs does not mean it will never happen, council chiefs insist. Cabinet members at...

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Anger as key sites lie empty for years

PLANS: Left, land off Waterloo Road set for redevelopment under Lear's plan. Centre, how it might have looked. Right, Chatterley Valley.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

THE old Victoria Ground was once a shrine for thousands of football fans who flocked to watch Stoke City play. Today it lies derelict, and residents...

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Long road to three sites' development comes to dead-end

Thursday, March 11, 2010

How the trio of regeneration projects have progressed in recent years. 1997: Stoke City Football Club leaves the Victoria Ground, in Stoke, to move to...

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Quarrying reduction depends on quango

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

RESIDENTS hope unelected officials will land a blow to plans for new and expanded quarries across the county. The West Midlands Regional Assembly...

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First narrowboat for 50 years moors at canal junction

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

MOOR PLEASE: A milestone in the campaign to reopen a filled-in part of a canal was reached with a £46,000 clean-up . A narrowboat became the...

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Housing earmarked for derelict pub site

SUPPORT: Graham Fowell is pleased to see the Travellers Rest, on Ashbourne Road, being developed. Picture: Cara Edgington

Monday, March 08, 2010

AN EYESORE pub could soon be demolished and replaced by a £900,000 housing development. Developers want to bring down The Travellers Rest in...

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800 JOBS SWITCH SCRAPPED

Friday, March 05, 2010

CONTROVERSIAL plans to privatise up to 800 council jobs are due to be abandoned. Stoke-on-Trent City Council had planned to transfer some office...

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Demolition strikes at housing figures

Thursday, March 04, 2010

REGENERATION specialist Renew North Staffordshire knocked down three times as many homes as it built last year. More than 500 houses were bulldozed by...

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Homes set for go-ahead to improve 'untidy' site

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

PLANS to build a 43-home housing development have been recommended for approval. Morris Homes wants to build 31 detached and semi-detached houses on...

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