
Chatterley Whitfield
Chatterley Whitfield provides a unique opportunity for ‘black to green’ development and the potential for a large state-of-the-art ‘Eco Park’. This could be an internationally significant development, one that will host geothermal, solar, wind generation along with a major battery storage facility.
We are working towards a preferred energy scenario for the city council that includes high levels of energy self-sufficiency from low carbon sources. The council is now exploring ways for companies and proposals to invest that cover new and emerging city trends and 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 of investment would look to simultaneously safeguard its existing heritage and deliver a unique sustainable energy facility, capturing the economic, social, and energy potential of the site.
Vision
A new vision has been imagined for the site. 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
Programme
- Sustainable future for Chatterley Whitfield
- Exemplary Zero Carbon Development
- A centre for research into energy technologies relating to former collieries
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