Planning approval for former pottery sites

Plans to turn two former pottery factories into 72 homes are set to be approved – despite strong objections from a neighbouring St Marks Primary school due to privacy and safeguarding - with the homes over looking classrooms.

Sterling Property Co Ltd's plans for the Atlas and Cleveland Works in Shelton would see the existing buildings converted into 18 flats and seven town houses.

The scheme would also include the construction of a new three to five-storey apartment block on vacant land next to the Cleveland Works, providing a further 47 flats.