Regeneration

Shadow minister tours renewal sites

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

CIVIC leaders met a shadow minister during a whistle-stop tour of regeneration projects in the area.

Conservative shadow minister for communities and local government, Stewart Jackson, spent several hours in Stoke-on-Trent yesterday visiting sites such as City...

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Unfinished homes are knocked down

FLATTENED: Demolition workers clear the rubble after knocking down the flats. Below, how they looked last February. Picture: Clare Jennings

Saturday, February 06, 2010

APARTMENTS are being knocked down to make way for care homes, less than two years after work started to build them. The homes in Dividy Road,...

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Probe into £3.2m fees for one firm

Saturday, February 06, 2010

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into how the city council came to pay a single firm more than £3.2 million to complete hundreds of its...

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Empty shop in bid to become a creative hub

IN DEMAND: The former MK One building in Burslem.

Monday, February 01, 2010

A MAJOR town centre building left empty following the closure of a High Street retailer could be transformed into live/work units within a year. The...

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Bulldozers poised to roll into street

CHANGES: Jameel Ahmed has mixed feelings about homes being bulldozed in Shelton. Picture: Malcolm Hart

Thursday, January 28, 2010

BULLDOZERS are expected to begin knocking down homes in a clearance area once the new financial year begins. Around 60 houses in the Parkhouse Street...

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Bulldozers to level 150 more homes

CLEARANCE ZONE: Picton Street resident Vikki Grinders wants the council to get a move on with regenerating the area. Picture: Cara Edgington

Monday, January 25, 2010

AROUND 150 houses are to be bulldozed in the city centre after a council started legal proceedings to force owners to sell up. Stoke-on-Trent City...

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Another 93 homes face the bulldozers

Monday, January 18, 2010

A FURTHER 93 houses are to be knocked down in an area undergoing regeneration. Stoke-on-Trent City Council has declared another clearance area in...

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Auditors look at renewal failings

BUILDING BRIDGES: The Bridgewater bridge forms an attractive centrepiece to the City Waterside development, which is under scrutiny.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

AUDITORS are to investigate Stoke-on-Trent City Council as part of an investigation into the spending by its regeneration body. After "serious...

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51 homes to be bulldozed in £2.3m plan

EMPTY: The former Churchill China site, in Cobridge.

Monday, January 11, 2010

FIFTY-ONE houses are to be bought and then knocked down at a cost of more than £2.3 million to the taxpayer. Stoke-on-Trent City Council wants to...

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Major stores ruled out for prime land

SCRAPPED: The plan to develop land off Waterloo Road in Hanley with a B&Q and other stores has now been pulled. Below, an artist's impression of how it may have looked and how we covered the story in November 2008. Picture: Steve Bould

Saturday, January 02, 2010

NO big-name shops will be allowed on a prime city centre site which has stood derelict for the past three years. The land, off Waterloo Road, Hanley,...

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