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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 (AMI), and is characterised by streets of small Victorian terraced housing, more modern infill and former industrial sites. 

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 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.

In this AMI, RENEW has invested more than £50 million in land assembly which has included purchases in six housing clearance areas covering more than 600 mainly poor quality homes. 

In addition, more than £4m has been invested in to direct works to more than 400 retained properties, the streetscape and wider environment.

The City Waterside Community Centre in Dresden Street and the Neighbourhood Worker are also RENEW North Staffordshire-funded via housing association partners Sanctuary Housing.