Stoke-on-Trent City Council hopes to sell the Stoke Town Development Site, which includes the Spode Works, the Civic Centre, the Town Hall, the King’s Hall and Gordon House.
Already 29 organisations have shown an interest.
Engineering consultants Wardell Armstrong have been commissioned to carry out structural surveys of buildings on the site and a flood risk assessment.
Councillor Ruth Rosenau, cabinet member for regeneration, planning and transformation, said: “The results of these preparatory surveys will make the site more attractive to interested parties and help to secure a development partner to regenerate the area.”
Money from the sale of the site will be used to help finance the new civic centre which is being created in Hanley.
Chatterley Whitfield – a former colliery which should be a World Heritage Site
The former colliery at Chatterley Whitfield, which merits World Heritage Site status, has been nominated as a Building at Risk.
Email phoenixstaffs@mail.com to tell us about other former industrial building and old factories that are Buildings at Risk in Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Leek and Cheadle.
Historic Ford Green Hall has been nominated as a Building at Risk
Historic Ford Green Hall is just one of the many heritage buildings in The Potteries which local people have nominated as a building at Risk.
Other buildings that have been nominated include the old Spode factory in Stoke, Price & Kensington’s canalside works at Longport, the Wedgwood Institute and Tunstall Pool.
The Phoenix Trust needs your help to make a definitive list of all heritage buildings in North Staffordshire which are at risk.
Tell us about listed and unlisted buildings of historical or architectural importance that are at risk because of local government austerity measures, dereliction, neglect, decay or vandalism.
The buildings you tell us about will be featured on our website to encourage and empower local people to take a more active role in protecting and preserving North Staffordshire’s unique historic environment.
Let us have photographs of the building if possible. A good photograph is worth a thousand words. It creates public interest and could help launch a campaign to save the building.
Please send details of buildings at risk to phoenixstaffs@mail.com
The Wedgwood Institute – a heritage building which could be saved by community action
Communities Minister Don Foster has given new powers to communities to help them protect community assets and buildings.
The Localism Act allows local communities to ‘stop-the clock’ on the sale of valuable local assets and amenities, including post offices, village shops, community pubs and heritage buildings, giving them time to put in a takeover bid of their own.
Speaking recently to an audience of local activists and parish councillors at the National Association of Local Councils conference, Mr Foster spoke of the Government’s continuing commitment to give power back to the people.
Under the provisions of the Localism Act, voluntary groups, community organisations and parish councils can nominate an asset for inclusion on a list of ’assets of community value’.
A successful nomination will hold up the sale of the asset for six-months giving the local community an opportunity to bid to buy it.
Communities Minister Don Foster said: ”For too long communities have been shut out, forced to watch from the sidelines as treasured local assets have been shut-down and sold on.
“The Localism Act lets communities decide what’s important to them and ’stop the clock’ on sales so they have the time to get together to make a bid and draw up a plan to ensure that prized local assets can live on run by the community for the community.”
Communities throughout the country have already shown their determination to save and run local amenities.
In Norden, a trust was formed to buy and refurbish the historic library building. The trust purchased the lease form the local authority and transformed the building into a community hub and a doctors surgery.
People living in Cranley are making plans to acquire the village hospital and use the building to provide help and support for senior citizens.
If you are working to save a historic building or a community asset in North Staffordshire email phoenixstaffs@mail.com and tell us about your project.
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