City need to spend levelling up fund allocation

More than £31m of Stoke-on-Trent's Levelling Up money remains unspent - nearly five years after the funding was announced.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council was awarded £56 million for numerous regeneration schemes by the Conservative government in 2021.

The Goods Yard development next to the railway station, which was allocated £16m of funding, is the only one of Stoke-on-Trent's Levelling Up schemes to be completed so far but the council said funding would be spent before the government's 2028 deadline..