Plans in for Stoke on Trent city centre mixed-use scheme

The council-led two-phase Etruscan Square development will deliver nearly 300 homes, a hotel and a 3,600-capacity arena in the Hanley area of the city centre.

If approved, phase one of the Etruscan Square development would bring 92 one-bed flats, 44 two-bed flats, and three four-bed townhouses, along with 632 sq m commercial, business and service space, and public realm works to previously-developed brownfield land.

Phase two would see the creation of a 3,600-seater arena, 138-room hotel, 200-space underground car park, a commercial centre providing 5,620 sq m floor space and a further 153 flats.

In its planning application to Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Marrons’ socio-economics research found that the scheme would help create more than 1,000 full-time jobs throughout the five-year construction period, on completion and the indirect jobs created – injecting around £27m into the local economy.