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DEVELOPER
Touchstone Housing Association
LOCATION
7-11 Queen Street, Burslem, Stoke-on Trent. Main retail shopping street of Burslem town centre
STAGE
At planning stage
SCALE
6 units averaging 66 sq metres, including communal area that will incorporate potential retail unit. 2 units within basement & ground floor: residential accommodation in basement, work on ground floor. First and second floors have 2 integral live/work units on each floor
TENURE
To be confirmed. Likely to be assured shorthold tenancy with separate agreement incorporating business advice
FUNDING
Keynote (Touchstone's group structure) Regeneration as lead partner, Keynote Development £75,000, Touchstone Housing Association tenancy management, Housing Corporation in principle support and possibly £100,000 to fund 'live' element only, SRB6/North Staffordshire Regeneration Zone agreed in principle, possibly £400,000 through two packages - enterprise and innovation and image and infrastructure, Burslem Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) £75,000, in kind-support from BIC for business support (full range) etc and Staffordshire and Keele universities - graduate retention project support, Stoke-on-Trent Objective 2 matched funding
PARTNERS
As above
TARGET MARKET
Design and technology graduates of two local universities, Staffordshire and Keele
DEFINING FEATURES
Staffordshire and Black Country Business Innovation Centre (BIC) will provide support officer based in an adjacent property. Burslem town centre being promoted as design centre for North Staffordshire. Project links with nearby Ceramica project, Stoke-on Trent's Queen Street Enterprise Unit funded by Objective 2, Burslem School of Art, which also houses BIC (two doors away). Possible more live/work units, design units and cafe planned for building diagonally opposite
'The need has been demonstrated through research undertaken by Staffordshire University and the Business Innovation Centre. They saw live/work units as the "missing link" within North Staffordshire's enterprise accommodation' says Bob Pringle, regeneration director
CONTACT
Bob Pringle, Keynote Housing Group Limited
