Housebuilding in Stoke-on-Trent increased in 2022/23 – but was still well down on pre-pandemic levels. A total of 548 homes were completed in the city up from 466 in the previous year, according to Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s latest planning services monitoring report.
While this was the highest number of completions recorded since the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020, it was still well below the 909 completions in 2019/20. Until Covid-19 brought construction sites around the world to a halt, housebuilding in Stoke-on-Trent had generally been on an upward trend since 2010.
But the report says there were another 880 new homes under construction, which is ‘significantly higher’ than in the previous year, many of which will have since been completed.
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The 2022/23 total included 463 new builds and 85 conversions, and there were more than twice as many houses as there were flats – 338 compared to 145. And 178 of the homes were classed as affordable, higher than in previous years, whilt the report also notes an increase in communal housing schemes, like care homes, which accounted for 47 new homes over the course of the year.
Major schemes in Stoke-on-Trent which saw homes completed in 2022/23 included the redevelopment of the former Royal Doulton site in Nile Street, Burslem and the former Workshop for the Blind site in Fenton.
While most new housing (72 per cent) was on brownfield land, 2022/23 saw the highest proportion of greenfield developments in years, accounting for 28 per cent of completions. According to the monitoring report, the proportion of homes being built on brownfield was still above the national target of 60 per cent.
Greenfield developments included the Keepmoat Homes scheme at the former Chatterley Whitfield Sports Ground in Fegg Hayes.
In addition to new homes, 2022/23 also saw the construcrtion of 88,123 square metres of employment space, up from 48,884 square metres in the previous year. A total of 8,605 square metres of retail space were completed, along with 1,139 square metres of office space.
Here are some of the major housebuilding schemes in Stoke-on-Trent which saw units completed in 2022/23:
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