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The Hanley south and City Waterside area forms the central and eastern regions of RENEW North Staffordshire’s City Centre Area of Major Intervention, and is characterised by streets of small Victorian terraced housing, more modern infill and former industrial sites. 

City Waterside is a £177 million regeneration scheme covering 67 hectares of land. Since 2006 planning permission has been given for 1,300 new homes - 220 of which had been completed and sold by April 2009.

The area has a number of defining features. Caldon Canal runs through it, following the contours of the south facing hillside that provides distant views out to the green spaces beyond the urban core. 

The canal also passes through Hanley's Victorian park which is in the heart of the area and has benefited in recent years from the completion of an extensive programme of restoration.

To the east, the new City Waterside neighbourhood (www.stokecitywaterside.co.uk) is being created, building on the existing community but expanded by the creation of more than 2,000 new homes on cleared sites, a new school and high quality streets and public areas. 

The area, which is home to the successful Emma Bridgewater Pottery factory, is seen as a regional priority and a range of regeneration agencies are collaborating to pool resources to help support the construction of new high quality homes in the area.

When City Waterside is fully developed it will total 2,400 new properties and 540 improved homes in historic terraces, together with a small amount of infill housing dates from the 1960s and 1970s.

Environmental improvements have been undertaken throughout the City Waterside area including new street furniture, traffic calming measures and a facelift for the Victorian terraced housing that is being retained.