Garages left empty are to be reviewed

Some could be sold off or be demolished

- Phil Corrigan

COUNCIL-OWNED garages in Stoke-on-Trent are being reviewed - with more than half of them currently empty.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s housing revenue account (HRA) has 1,117 garages, but only 46.5 per cent of them are occupied, meaning around 600 are not in use.

Councillors are being consulted on the garages in their wards, which could see some sold off or demolished and repurposed.

Dave Evans, Conservative councillor for Baddeley, Milton and Norton, raised the issue, suggesting that some under-used garage sites in his ward could be turned into off-street parking to ease congestion.