Unrivalled infrastructure developments, including the A50/A500 corridor
A place to prosper
Welcome to Staffordshire.
A region with a can-do attitude, rich industrial heritage, and perfect conditions for growth.
Home to pioneering businesses, dynamic universities, and world-class connectivity – both digitally and logistically – Staffordshire offers the ideal environment for your business and your people to succeed.
Located at the heart of the UK, our unrivalled transport links and 80% green spaces give you the best of both worlds – stunning landscapes and easy access to major cities.
Invest Staffordshire – providing the perfect conditions for growth.
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A place that shares your ambitions
These are exciting times for Staffordshire. And for any business that decides to invest here. Major regional projects and various funding sources have aligned to create perfect conditions for growth, giving businesses large and small, unprecedented opportunities to maximise what our county has to offer.
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More than £130 million of planned investment for our bustling and vibrant towns from Government funding
Direct access to a future talent pool from World class universities including Keele, Staffordshire, Derby and Nottingham
A cost-effective place to live, learn and thrive, we offer potential salary savings of 11.3% against the national average
Over 500,000 acres of rural land, making Staffordshire 80% green
Staffordshire’s ambition is to be a county with access to 100% Gigabit connectivity by 2030
The right place for you
If you share our ambitions to grow and succeed, and you want to realise them in our green and pleasant county, we’ll have just the place for you – whatever your business.
There are major projects transforming every one of our eight districts, with many more to come. Here is just a selection of those.
Chatterley Whitfield
Powering Digital Growth, a Digital and Energy Growth zone development to provide new training and employment opportunities in digital and green industries and research into energy technologies.
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Location
Stoke-on-Trent
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Scale
50 hectares, 279,000 sq ft
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Planning Status
In progress – partners wanted
Eastgate
Regenerating surplus buildings and complementing them with new development to provide 98 high-quality new homes, a new hotel and public realm while safeguarding heritage assets.
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Location
Stafford
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Scale
98 residential units, 100 key hotel, 3,000 sq ft commercial space
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Planning Status
Pre-application
The Central Edge
A unique business ecosystem in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire, focused on advanced manufacturing, innovation-led R&D, and green/sustainable technologies.
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Location
South Staffordshire
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Scale
Over 16.4m sq ft of prime innovation development land
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Planning Status
Approved
Fifty500
The Fifty500 Midlands Growth Corridor offers a unique opportunity to transform the area into one of the UK’s primary locations for investment, manufacturing and sustainable growth.
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Location
Mixed
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Scale
1.6bn
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Planning Status
Planning approved
The Maltings
The regeneration of Uttoxeter’s Maltings Shopping Precinct into a mixed-used centre of activity for living, working, shopping and learning, with pedestrianisation of the High Street.
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Location
East Staffordshire
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Scale
Approx. 4.4 acres
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Planning Status
In Planning, land assembly completed
Chatterly Park
A perfectly located employment site building on the area’s reputation as a logistics hub and a centre of manufacturing excellence, with development plots suitable for a wide range of uses.
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Location
Newcastle-under-Lyme
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Scale
43 hectares, up to 1.2m sq ft of employment space
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Planning Status
In progress
West Midlands Interchange
The UK’s largest, most environmentally-conscious rail-served logistics site, with world-leading warehousing and a rail freight interchange linking major road networks with the West Coast Mainline.
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Location
South Staffordshire
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Scale
8m sq ft of development space
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Planning Status
In progress
Keele Innovation District
Expansion of Keele’s highly successful Science and Innovation Park to provide specialist workspace, lab space and R & D facilities, open-innovation hub and social and meeting spaces.
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Location
Newcastle-under-Lyme
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Scale
c.1m sq ft of additional workspace
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Planning Status
In planning: work expected to start before 2030, with completion in 2047
View projects on our strategic site map
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