A high energy celebration of creativity featuring the best local potters, painters and poets is heading to Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Tim Heatley knows at first hand the realities of living in hardship. When he was growing up in his native Eccles in Salford, Greater Manchester, back in the 1990s, his dad lost his job and Heatley ended up on free school meals.

Independent coffee shop and sandwich specialists Cotton is the latest arrival at Goods Yard, the brand-new canalside neighbourhood in Stoke-on-Trent by social impact developers Capital&Centric.

Capital&Centric has announced that almost all of the homes at its flagship Farnworth Green neighbourhood have been snapped up within just 10 weeks of launching - a huge milestone for the bold reboot of the town centre.

One of the UK’s biggest clubbing names, The Warehouse Project, has secured a new home at Capital&Centric’s Neptune Mill – marking a huge moment for the reborn 19th century mill in Manchester’s Piccadilly East.

Capital&Centric’s transformation of Wigan’s former Civic Centre is well underway, with construction and restoration work set to complete this summer. The project will see the iconic building reborn as Civic: a vibrant home for startups, creative businesses and established names alike.

Capital&Centric, the award-winning developer behind the acclaimed Goods Yard project in Stoke-on-Trent, has completed a critical phase in the transformation of Newcastle-Under-Lyme’s town centre. Astley Place, the former shopping centre, has been fully stripped out and sensitively demolished, paving the way for its much-anticipated conversion.

Capital&Centric and Stoke-on-Trent City Council have secured the go-ahead to transform the iconic Spode Works into a landmark destination, breathing new life into this historic pottery factory.

Global property advisor, Avison Young, has put its weight behind Capital&Centric’s Goods Yard neighbourhood in Stoke-on-Trent, taking the entire Pavilion building and relocating its East Midlands team.

A disused corner of Newcastle-under-Lyme is set to undergo a radical transformation into a neighbourhood of new affordable homes.