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Bid for a share of £1m for your high street and become a Portas Pilot
Towns and cities across the UK are being given the opportunity to bid for a share of a £1million funding pot to help them to turn arond their unloved and unused High Streets. Stoke-on-Trent with its six towns has more than enough unloved High Streets to choose from to put bids in against.
Unesco Condem Wedgwood Museum Closure
David Dawson the head of the Unesco Committee which listed the Wedgwood Museum on the Memory of the World Register has condemned the High Court ruling that means the collection has to be sold to fund a black hole in the Wedgwood pension fund.
Speaking to the Guardian on Sunday he described the collection as one of the most complete ceramic manufacturing archives in the world.
and said
Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Staffordshire County Council To Create Joint Investment Team
Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Staffordshire County Council are funding a joint inward investment service with the aim of attracting in excess of 10,000 jobs over the next three to five years.
The service, which is launching a new website outlining the city and county offer, is aimed at attracting investment and assisting existing major companies to expand in the region.
The Make it Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Investment Development Team will operate across the city and county and will incorporate the existing inward investment support in both areas.
Name the Diamond Woods
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is inviting entries to name the two Diamond Wood sites to be planted in the city later this year. Backed by B&Q and Kier Stoke, the council is running a competition in conjunction with The Sentinel, to name the two Stoke-on-Trent woods.
In December 2011 two sites, Fenpark and off Biddulph Road near Packmoor were awarded £220,000 from the Forestry Commission to create the woodlands.
Albion and Parliament Square Proposals Go On Display
Shoppers are being given a first glimpse of the next stage of a multi-million pound transformation of public spaces in the city centre.
Proposals for the Albion and Parliament Square areas of the city centre are going on display this week as residents and visitors are encouraged to have their say.
Councillor Ruth Rosenau, Stoke-On-Trent City Council cabinet member for regeneration, said
Graham Wallace
Pits n Pots is sad to report that former Stoke-on-Trent City Councillor Graham Wallace passed away on Saturday after a short battle with cancer.
Mr Wallace was a much respected across the city, as a councillor in the former Abbey Green ward, where he lived for over 60 years and as a member of the Stoke Central Labour Party.
The Wallace Sports & Education Centre in Abbey Hulton was named after Mr Wallace when it opened in 2004.
£7,741,247 for Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership have been awarded £7,741,247 out of a £50m pot shared between Local Enterprise Partnerships across the West Midlands.
The £50m of Government funding is to help with key infrastructure projects.
Examples of eligible projects include new infrastructure for development sites and access improvements to unlock the potential of new commercial space and homes.
