Levelling Up Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has secured £56m from the government in Levelling Up funding. This funding will support major transformational programmes right across the city: Etruscan Square in the city centre, backed by £20m of Levelling Up funding, with development opportunities including a 3,600-capacity arena, 82,000 sf ft of commercial space, 285 homes, a 701-space car park a 138-bedroom hotel. The Goods Yard next to Stoke Station and the Trent and Mersey Canal, backed by £16m in Levelling Up funding, with developer Capital&Centric to transform a 1.24-acre site into office, leisure and commercial space, 174 with apartments and a 150-bed hotel. A new public realm will also be created alongside the reopening of the canalside jetty into public space. The further transformation of the Spode site in Stoke, backed by £10m in Levelling Up funding, with proposals to develop residential units, commercial space and large-scale community space on the former pottery site. The Crown Works in Longton, with proposals for 75 homes over an acre of land, backed by £6.5m in Levelling Up funding that will help to regenerate the town. Investment into the Grade II listed Tunstall Library and Pool, using £3.5m in Levelling Up funding to support 34 apartments, seven family mews homes and more than 2,000 sq ft of community space in the iconic buildings