A former, disused 50-hectare colliery site, providing a unique opportunity for ‘black to green’ development and the potential for a large state-of-the-art ‘Eco Park’.
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This could be an internationally significant development, one that will host geothermal, solar, wind generation along with a major battery storage facility –
one of the city council’s proposed projects to significantly increase its capacity to generate and supply local commercially useful decarbonised energy and secure strategic partnership for delivery.
The former, disused colliery site, on the outskirts of Chell and Ball Green in Stoke-on-Trent, is owned and managed by the council and encompasses 50 hectares of former mining buildings and structures within a wider setting of the 50-hectare country park. By building on previous investment, the next phases would look to simultaneously safeguard its existing heritage and deliver a unique sustainable energy facility, capturing the site’s economic, social and energy potential.
The vision, implemented as a 10-year Development Plan, will deliver significant
long-lasting and much-needed benefits, including:
• Creating a viable and sustainable future for Chatterley Whitfield, building
on its history, sense of place, and industrial past
• Creating an exemplary zero-carbon development, realizing a combination of
reuse and new build opportunities to provide a place to work, learn, live, and act
• Development of new training, skills, and employment opportunities, particularly
in green industries
• Becoming a centre for research into energy technologies