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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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THE PLACE TO INVEST

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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Unrivalled infrastructure developments, including the A50/A500 corridor

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.

  • Location Map pin icon Stoke-on-Trent
  • Scale Scale icon 50 hectares, 279,000 sq ft
  • Planning Status Pen icon In progress – partners wanted
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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.

  • Location Map pin icon Stafford
  • Scale Scale icon 98 residential units, 100 key hotel, 3,000 sq ft commercial space
  • Planning Status Pen icon Pre-application
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The Central Edge

A unique business ecosystem in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire, focused on advanced manufacturing, innovation-led R&D, and green/sustainable technologies.

  • Location Map pin icon South Staffordshire
  • Scale Scale icon Over 16.4m sq ft of prime innovation development land
  • Planning Status Pen icon Approved
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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.

  • Location Map pin icon Mixed
  • Scale Scale icon 1.6bn
  • Planning Status Pen icon Planning approved
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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.

  • Location Map pin icon East Staffordshire
  • Scale Scale icon Approx. 4.4 acres
  • Planning Status Pen icon In Planning, land assembly completed
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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.

  • Location Map pin icon Newcastle-under-Lyme
  • Scale Scale icon 43 hectares, up to 1.2m sq ft of employment space
  • Planning Status Pen icon In progress
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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.

  • Location Map pin icon South Staffordshire
  • Scale Scale icon 8m sq ft of development space
  • Planning Status Pen icon In progress
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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.

  • Location Map pin icon Newcastle-under-Lyme
  • Scale Scale icon c.1m sq ft of additional workspace
  • Planning Status Pen icon In planning: work expected to start before 2030, with completion in 2047
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Our team of inward investment experts can help you in all sorts of ways – navigating the area, finding suitable property, and providing local, on-the-ground business support.

For more details or to arrange a meeting, contact our team.

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