Disaster planning: North Staffs

What do we know?

1.1 The site recognised in the original conception as a disaster area

⦿ Site Plan of the Potteries Thinkbelt © CCA used with permission

First then, why this site? This part of North Staffordshire—including the Potteries and Newcastle-under-Lyne—is less well-to-do than the rest of the west Midlands. As regards buildings, it is a disaster area, largely unchanged and uncared for since its industrial expansion throughout the 19th century.

Price, C., 1966, Potteries Thinkbelt, New Society [2]

Thus Cedric Price knew:—

• … that in terms of buildings the part of North Staffordshire including the Potteries and Newcastle-under-Lyne was a disaster area.

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