Middleport

Stoke residents will have the chance to step into the past over the Bank Holiday weekend as they are given a rare opportunity to learn about some of Stoke’s most historic buildings. Local historian Andrew Dobraszczyc will be leading a walk around some of the wharves, warehouses, potteries, flour mills and lime kilns that line the Trent & Mersey Canal through Middleport and Longport.

Residents are being invited to have their say on the latest phase of redevelopment work in Middleport. The houses in Port Street, Travers Street, Harper Street and Burgess Street, close to the historic Middleport Pottery, are earmarked for regeneration activity and local residents are being urged to air their views on the plans at special meetings over the next week.

Hundreds of homes have been demolished, whilst more remain derelict, shuttered-up with painted boards in a vain attempt to make the place less like a slum, and yet the city council and Renew are still pressing on with their plans to throw people out of their homes, against their will. This week, councillors will contemplate more clearance which partner Renew favours for the scrap heap in Middleport, an area which has already seen the unpopular demise of the vicinity of Slater Street for what res

By Matt Taylor Back in March 2008, we produced a film in partnership with Junction 15 about the plight of residents in Middleport amid plans to demolish terraces in the area (see bottom of piece for link to updated version of the video). A year and a half and a public enquiry later, most of the terraces have now been pulled down, leaving behind a strangely desolate wasteland surrounded by the housing that remains. [caption id="attachment_7747" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Str

[caption id="attachment_2216" align="alignleft" width="94" caption="Hazel Blears"][/caption] A compulsory purchase order for an area of run-down housing in Stoke-on-Trent has been approved by Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.