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A500 City Road & Stoke Junction Improvement
3. A DESCRIPTION OF THE A500 STOKE PATHFINDER PROJECT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS
3.1. The length of the A500 under consideration runs through an urban corridor bisecting the city of Stoke-on-Trent, an area characterised by a mixture of commercial, industrial, residential, educational, civic and community land uses. Close by are the conservation areas of St Peter's Churchyard and Winton Square, together with several notable and listed buildings, including St Peter's Church, the Town Hall and Stoke Railway Station with its associated hotel. There are other buildings of special local interest nearby, including another church and a former tile works.
3.2. Immediately to the north of the main road there are industrial buildings to the east, and a residential area, together with Hartshill Park situated on rising ground, to the west.
3.3. Immediately to the south of the City Road Junction the main road is bordered by industrial development and three areas of terraced housing. Further to the east, but still adjacent to the main road, lies the former Stoke City football ground, now awaiting development.
3.4. The Trent and Mersey Canal together with the main London to Manchester railway line run close to the east of the main road through industrial units and several vacant development sites, the most notable of which is the Station Site located between the canal and the main railway station. This canal is a main feeder for water into the canal system in the Midlands and is a significant navigation route.
3.5. The River Trent flows from south to southwest through the area, mainly in a culvert within the A500 corridor but in an open channel to the south of Whieldon Road. At one point it passes beneath the Trent and Mersey Canal thence under the City Road Junction to a point where it is joined by the Fowlea Brook before continuing onwards under Whieldon Road and over a triple weir by the former football ground. The Fowlea Brook in turn flows in a southerly direction in its culvert beneath the line of the A500 central reserve and weaves to and fro beneath the existing A500 before joining the River Trent at the City Road junction.
3.6. Parts of all these watercourses would be affected by the proposed scheme. They have generally been modified to contain a 1 in 100 year flood in most places, but a risk of flooding has been identified in two areas, one of which is where the River Trent and Fowlea Brook meet. All three watercourses currently take untreated highway drainage water.
3.7. The total length of the trunk road scheme is approximately 3.2 kilometres.
