Residents urged to have say as sites added to local plan

'No final decision taken' say council bosses

- Phil Corrigan Local Democracy Reporter

COUNCIL leaders have backed proposals to earmark 11 sites for development - but insist that the public will be able to have their say before a final decision is taken.

Cabinet members at Stoke-on-Trent City Council agreed to declare the authority-owned sites surplus and formally submit them to the draft local plan.

They include the site of the former Ball Green High School, and nearly 500 people have so far backed a petition calling for the land to be retained for public us. The local plan will guide all development in Stoke-on-Trent over the next 15 years, and will include the allocation of sites for thousands of new homes.