Posted on Monday 15th December 2025
Stafford Station Gateway
Work to prepare a key development site as part of a major regeneration scheme in Stafford has begun.
The county council-owned land off Doxey Road will form part of the Stafford Station Gateway project, bringing planned new homes and businesses to the area. This scheme is a partnership between the borough council and county council.
The former Saint Gobain manufacturing site was purchased by the county council in 2018 as part of the now completed Stafford western access route scheme. Industrial buildings there were demolished to make way for future regeneration.
Now a building which has been used as a garage in recent years on land close to the railway line is being demolished.
Before any development can take place, this former industrial land of around 15 acres needs to be remediated to make it suitable for future development. Trial works for this process will begin in January before the main remediation works across the site begin towards the end of 2026.
To support these works, Stafford Borough Council secured £20million from the Government, with up to£16.5million allocated to the Doxey Road works. Local communities and businesses will be consulted and kept up to date throughout the trial works and main land preparation works next year.
Martin Murray, acting leader at Staffordshire County Council said:
As a key partner of the Stafford Station Gateway scheme we’re keen to ensure the land preparation begins as soon as possible to ready it for major development.
This is a significant area of the regeneration site close to the western access route and the railway. Through remediating the site, it will enable it to be developed but this does take time.
We will of course keep nearby communities and businesses up to date with plans and work progress.
Seeing activity on site represents another milestone, instils investor confidence and helps us to build on our growth plans here at the beating heart of the UK economy.”
A new Institute of Technology for the Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group next to the railway line, supported by £13 million of government funding and backed by Stafford Borough Council, Keele University, Siemens, and Dell among others, is now open.
Stafford Borough Council leader, Aidan Godfrey, said:
Everyone visiting Stafford town centre will see the significant regeneration already taking place - including recent improvements to the entrance, and approach, to our railway station - the gateway to the centre of our town. The Stafford Station Gateway project is another part of that overall vision to transform the county town, and the work underway on this key site will provide the catalyst for further progress of our ambitious plans.
The money we have already attracted to support the regeneration of our town is testament to the confidence that investors and the government have in us, and our partners, being able to deliver significant growth in the area. We are perfectly placed by road, rail, and air for new businesses to flourish and the Stafford Gateway will be a thriving, vibrant new community within the town where people want to live, work and visit and all sustainably connected to the railway station.”