Plans have been submitted to transform a former factory site in Stafford into a housing estate for more than 350 homes.
Developer St Modwen wants to redevelop the old General Electric/Alstom complex, off Lichfield Road in Stafford - which closed in March 2019 - by demolishing the existing buildings and replacing them with around 365 homes.
Proposals for the 30-acre site have now been submitted to Stafford Borough Council.
A planning statement said: "The site was previously in employment use, but has now been vacated. It represents a disused brownfield resource embedded in the urban area, well related to the town centre. It is ideally placed to accommodate residential development.
"While the development would result in the loss of an employment site, the scale of loss is not significant and there remains a good supply of better located and viable employment sites elsewhere in the borough.
"The context of the site has changed following recent planning permissions and developments, and a residential use is more appropriate in land use planning terms, given the site’s predominantly residential context.
"The previous occupier of the site has consolidated their operation within Stafford and so the business will not be lost to the area. The nature of the accommodation left behind on the site is such that it is not best suited to reoccupation by a different business, and redevelopment will ensure best use is made of this important brownfield resource.
"The proposals provide for a sustainable development of housing, including family housing which will assist in meeting local housing need and will boost supply."
