Wellington Road area

More than £50 million spent on regenerating communities around the city centre...

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Minister, David Miliband visits the Wellington Road area in 2005

The Wellington Road area falls within 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.

This 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 old street came alive'

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Jean Ashby on the impact of an innovative art project by Renew North Staffordshire to put blown-up images of family photographs on to houses set for demolition in the city. Hanley, February 21, 2008
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I want to see the residents of this area having a voice and RENEW to take account of their views.
Steven Pritchard, Cobridge
I will be glad to go. It’s not a nice place to live... There’s no community left here any more.
Linda Coates, Middleport