North Staffordshire & southern Cheshire

Where We Work

Our tradespeople live across Stoke-on-Trent, North Staffordshire and southern Cheshire. That is why we work where we work — not a radius drawn on a map, but the area our team actually comes from.

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Our coverage

The area our team comes from

Everything within roughly forty minutes of Stoke-on-Trent. It is a working radius rather than an arbitrary one — close enough that someone can come back the same day if a job needs adjusting, which on a two week kitchen fit happens more often than you would think.

Centred on Stoke-on-Trent. Villages around each town listed are covered too.

Typical distances across our area

Measured from Stoke-on-Trent

Newcastle-under-Lyme 10 min
Kidsgrove 10 min
Biddulph 15 min
Congleton 20 min
Alsager 20 min
Leek 25 min
Stone 25 min
Crewe 25 min
Cheadle 25 min
Stafford 30 min
Uttoxeter 35 min
Macclesfield 40 min
Town by town

Where we work, and what the houses are like

Stoke-on-Trent

Staffordshire

All six towns — Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall, Longton, Fenton and Stoke — plus Meir, Bucknall, Trentham, Barlaston and Blurton. Mostly pre-1919 pottery workers’ terraces with solid walls, narrow back-addition kitchens and small upstairs bathrooms, alongside newer estates on the southern edge.

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Newcastle-under-Lyme

Staffordshire · 10 minutes

An older market town with a much wider housing mix — Georgian near the centre, interwar semis at Westlands and Poolfields, and former mining villages at Silverdale, Knutton and Chesterton. Keele puts a large rental stock on the doorstep too.

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Kidsgrove

Staffordshire · 10 minutes

A canal and railway town on the Cheshire border, with Victorian terraces around the centre and a lot of post-war housing at Talke, Butt Lane and Newchapel. Solid stock that mostly wants updating rather than rescuing.

Biddulph

Staffordshire · 15 minutes

On the Moorlands edge, and noticeably more exposed than the city — which matters for anything outdoors. Stone and brick cottages towards Biddulph Moor, post-war estates lower down.

Leek

Staffordshire · 25 minutes

A Victorian silk town with a large conservation area and a lot of listed frontage. Beautiful stock, and the sort where matching an existing moulding matters more than picking a new one.

Stone

Staffordshire · 25 minutes

Georgian market town on the canal, with a well-kept centre and generous interwar and modern housing spreading out from it. Conservation area rules apply in parts of the town.

Cheadle

Staffordshire · 25 minutes

Small Moorlands market town with a mix of older stone property and newer estates, plus the surrounding villages out towards Alton and Oakamoor.

Stafford

Staffordshire · 30 minutes

The county town — a Georgian and Victorian centre wrapped in a great deal of modern development. Two quite different jobs depending on which side of town you are on.

Uttoxeter

Staffordshire · 35 minutes

Market town with a compact older centre and steady newer growth around it. Our furthest regular Staffordshire town, and comfortably within range.

Congleton

Cheshire · 20 minutes

Over the border but closer than Stafford. A Victorian silk town with good period stock near the centre and substantial modern estates towards Astbury and Buglawton.

Alsager

Cheshire · 20 minutes

Largely twentieth century housing with plenty of 1960s and 1970s detached and semi-detached property — square rooms, sound fabric, kitchens and bathrooms of an age that wants replacing.

Crewe

Cheshire · 25 minutes

A railway town, and it shows — dense Victorian terraces built for railway workers, much like the Potteries stock we work in every day. The same constraints and the same solutions.

Macclesfield

Cheshire · 40 minutes

Another silk town, with tight Victorian terraces near the centre and a good deal of desirable period and modern property spreading up towards the hills. Part of our team is based on this side, and the villages between here and the Staffordshire border are covered too.

Being straight with you

Why the list stops where it does

Burton upon Trent, Lichfield and Tamworth are all in Staffordshire and none of them are on our list. They are around an hour from where our team is based, which on a two-week kitchen fit means ten hours of driving a week before anyone picks up a tool.

That cost lands somewhere. Either the price goes up to cover it, or the service slips — a late start because of traffic, no coming back the same day for a small adjustment, a job stretched over more days than it needs. We would rather not quote than do either.

If you are in one of those towns, there will be a good multi-trade firm nearer to you and you will get a better job from them. That is not a brush-off, it is the honest answer.

Yes, we come to Cheshire

We are called Staffordshire Renovation Group, so people in Congleton, Alsager, Crewe and Macclesfield reasonably assume we do not travel to them.

Part of our team lives on that side of the border, which is the real reason those towns are covered. And look at the distances — Congleton and Alsager are twenty minutes from Stoke, Crewe twenty-five. All three are closer than Stafford and half the distance of Burton.

The name says where the business is registered, not how far the people go. If you are on the Cheshire side, ring us.

Common questions

About our coverage

Do you charge more the further out I am?

No. Prices are the same across everywhere on this page, and there is no travel charge or call-out fee for a survey. That is exactly why the coverage area has a limit — a flat price only works if the distances are sensible. Stretch it to an hour and somebody has to pay for the driving.

I am in a village, not one of the towns listed

The towns are shorthand for the areas around them. Barlaston, Endon, Werrington, Baldwins Gate, Madeley, Audley, Betley, Cheddleton, Weston, Blythe Bridge, Forsbrook, Meir Heath, Rode Heath, Scholar Green, Bosley, Gawsworth and dozens of others are all inside the same area. If you can see your nearest town on the map, you are covered.

What if I am just outside the area?

Ask anyway. A larger job is worth a longer drive in a way a single door is not, so the answer depends on what you are planning and on where the trades for that job happen to be based. We will give you a straight yes or no rather than a maybe, and if it is a no we will say why.

Which areas do you work in most?

Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme, by a distance — between them they account for most of what we do. That matters practically as well as geographically: we know the housing stock in those two extremely well, which is why a kitchen survey in a Burslem terrace or a bathroom in a Westlands semi rarely produces a surprise.

Not sure if we reach you?

Give us your postcode and we will tell you straight away. Free survey anywhere we cover, no travel charge.