Stoke Station Masterplan

About

Stoke-on-Trent is undergoing a huge transformation , and Stoke town is pivotal to that – within easy walking distance of the station is Staffordshire University’s main campus, Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Civic Centre, and the iconic Spode Site, and the new Goods Yard. The vision and masterplan for the station and wider Stoke ‘square mile’ pave the way to maximising the opportunities for residents, businesses, visitors and students to connect to the Core Cities of London, Birmingham and Manchester via the services that operate to and from Stoke directly. As part of the overall Station Masterplan schemes are planned to support and enhance the longer term growth of the city’s transport facilities and retail offering at the station and keeping the county connected given.

About Stoke Station
Stoke-on-Trent is a major train station on the West Coast Main Line, served by four services per hour to London Euston and six services an hour to Manchester Piccadilly with additional services to and from Banbury, Bristol Temple Meads, Derby and Crewe each hour. The footfall figures increased between 2015/2016 to 2016/2017 from 2.84 million passengers to 3.09 million passengers per annum.

Stoke-on-Trent station building was opened in 1848 and is today a Grade II listed structure. The three-storey Victorian station building to Platform 1 contains a large ticket hall, two food and beverage facilities, an alcoholic beverage bar, an office for the British Transport Police, waiting facilities and customer toilets. The building to platform 2 contains a smaller ticket hall, waiting facilities and customer toilets. The station buildings on either side of the railway corridor has additional vacant spaces that could be converted into additional development opportunities, which would offer passengers more from a station of this size.

There are currently six units that are available for future development, five within the building located on the Northbound Platform 1 and another opportunity within the station building on the Southbound Platform 2 side. In order for the available units to be considered as possible opportunities, a series of improvements will need to be undertaken to make the units habitable. Surveys will have to be completed to fully determine the extent of all works required.With the addition of HS2 to the region this will bring additional footfall to the station and the improvements to the station will help for further growth.

There is demonstratable demand for the utilisation and expansion of space at Stoke Railway Station. As part of Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s plans to transform the station and the area immediately around it they’re working with partners including Virgin Trains to bid for government money through the Transforming Cities Fund. This investment would, amongst other things,  support further expansion and investment in the station with the creation of 150 new car parking spaces accessed off Stoke Road and plans to create a transport  Interchange Hub.  

The proposals for the station will future proof the it for continued growth whilst putting the station back at the heart of the community and enable unlocking of bigger and longer term initiatives for the station and the surrounding environment.