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Originally, it consisted almost wholly of social housing, managed by Stoke City Council. The Right to Buy brought in by the Conservative government of the 1980s led to many of the semi-detached houses that make up most of the housing stock in the area being bought by their tenants, so that now approximately 25% of local houses are privately owned.
As a unitary authority, Stoke-on-Trent City Council has the functions of a county council and district council combined. In its capacity as a district council it is a billing authority collecting Council Tax and business rates, it processes local planning applications, it is responsible for housing, waste collection and environmental health.
Nearly a third of its residents live in council housing and there is an even larger proportion in terraced housing (Source: 2001 Census). According to the council's Neighbourhood Area Profile (July 2006), Smallthorne "is typified by large areas of privately-owned terraced housing and significant areas of semi-detached council-housing".
Burslem is the site of one of the two campuses of Stoke-on-Trent College; the College states that it is the largest Further Education college in Stoke and North Staffordshire. [20] The campus specialises in media-production and drama. Stoke Studio College, a studio school for 13- to 19-year-olds opened at the college campus in September 2013.
These areas are a part of the City of Stoke-on-Trent. For notable people from these areas please see: Category:People from Stoke-on-Trent. The 6 founder towns of the city are: Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent and Tunstall.
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Nos. 1 & 2 The Villas Nos. 3 & 4 The Villas 18 The Villas 15 The Villas. The Villas, Stoke-on-Trent, is an estate of 24 Victorian houses in Stoke-upon-Trent, England.Originally a distinct settlement set in green fields, it now merges with the late 19th- and early 20th-century suburban sprawl along London Road below Penkhull village on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent and within the ward of ...
The first housing developments were terraced houses, built to support workers of the local Chatterley Whitfield mines. Many of these survive to the present day. Later housing developments include the large housing estate centred on Blackbird Way, which was built in 2002–2003. The Potteries Loop Line previously ran along the outskirts of ...