Investing in Stoke
Visually the University Quarter will be a stunning centrepiece for education, as well as a vibrant business and learning community focal point.
- Stoke-on-Trent College is redeveloping its current Cauldon campus site and will later include the transformation of its other campus in Burslem.
- The City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College is relocating to a new site on Leek Road adjacent to the University complex.
- The University’s College Road site will be redeveloped with new facilities, new public spaces, a boulevard linking the University to the city centre, as well as business start-up space and new residential units.
Showpiece new faciltieis will be shared by all three partners. They are:
- High-tech Science and Technology Centre
- Digital Media Hub
- University Boulevard
- Remodelled public realm
As a major development in the city, UniQ is a key element and will act as a catalyst for a £45- million regeneration of the wider area between the mainline railway station and Stoke-on-Trent city centre.
It’s also hoped to attract new commercial and business spin-offs in the University Quarter itself and surrounding parts of the City.
The ambition is to invest in world-class education facilities within the UniQ to create a place where the local community will want to go to develop and enhance their skills, thereby raising aspirations and achievement of higher level qualifications in the region. The UniQ programme will:
- Deliver £285m of investment in the area
- Create up to 1055 jobs
- Regenerate 9.7 hectares of brownfield land
- Support over 300 business start-ups
- Attract 17,000 extra students over 10 years
- Help increase productivity by £480m GVA
- Give 2500 local people access to future jobs