erz and NORD architecture were commissioned, following a competition win, to develop the masterplan framework for the historic Hanley Canal Quarter of Stoke on Trent, a area famous for its potteries. The masterplan organises built development around a series of urban spaces, creating new convivial places as well as managing surface water in a series of integrated reed beds. A mix of commercial uses are focused around a canalside space and an existing pottery is to be rehoused at the core of the site in a designed for purpose building. The intention is that excess heat from the pottery kilns is captured to heat a rooftop glasshouse for production of fruit and vegetables as a community resource.