Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet: A Brilliant Bamboo Growspace

Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet

Location: Land off Boothen Road, Stoke-upon-Trent, ST4 4AH. Getting here.

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Opening: currently for events as planned, see Events.

The Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet is an acre site in the heart of Stoke Town / Stoke-upon-Trent in the city of Stoke-on-Trent. The site is a former pottery works: Trent & Crescent (1868-1957), where only some of the walls and floors remain. The site has been owned by Sainsbury’s since 2007. Brilliant Bamboo took stewardship of the site in July 2025 thanks to the High Street Accelerator Greenspace fund from Stoke-on-Trent City Council and UK Government.

A wide shot of people watching an outdoor performance with bamboo poles creating structures and two strong female characters at the top of the structure.

We have a ten-year lease, and as our lease has a break clause, we’re considering how we can move within a short timeframe when the time comes.

Brownfield Parklet is our bamboo nursery, it started with over 400 bamboo plants in pots to which we take care of as our future crop, and lots of plants that have started to reclaim the site: bramble, buddleia, evening primrose, poppies, willow and birch…

We hope it’s also a place for play, imagination, and togetherness, featuring a series of workshops, events, and volunteering opportunities. We hope it’s a place for people and nature to come together.

The site is completely off-grid, and we’re exploring ideas of circularity, re-use and nature with artists, engineers and anyone else who’s interested and interesting for our site and work.  

Since then, we’ve had support from people through donations, The National Lottery Community Fund, Warburtons Community Fund for our family kits, Arnold Clark Community Fund, and Cllr. Andy Platt. Thank you!

See more of our story and projects by clicking the photos below:

A wide shot of people mooching around, playing with bamboo.
Brilliant Bamboo: Review of the year 2025 – Parklet top 5!
A pile of black rubber inner tubes in a car boot.
Turning Waste into Wonder
A group of people posing with bamboo bikes in front of a white wall.
Introducing our Masterclass Artists
Two people are in a garden planting a bamboo plant.
Press Release: Brilliant Bamboo land search, Feb 2025
A group of people standing on a large concrete slab on land with border of green plants with buildings in the distance.
Press Release: Brilliant Bamboo secures brownfield site in Stoke for pioneering parklet
People smiling around a bamboo structure
Together Active team building day at Brilliant Bamboo parklet
Images of paper-made polaroids
Meeting our neighbours, and sharing ideas at BB Brownfield Parklet
An artwork in an outdoor spaces with a blue cabin behind. The artwork has a black backgrounds with green shapes like grasses and worm shapes with faces some with speech bubbles saying "I'm hungry" or "Give us veg peels to make rich soil"
Wonderful Wormery: Wormery and Artwork
Brownfield Parklet introducing Dan Southward
Six people standing in front of a blue shipping container.
Kings Trust: October 2025
Besom Broom-making: October 2025
People standing and looking outdoors in front of a blue converted shipping container.
Capula #SocialValue Day: November 2025

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If you’d like to donate to our work, be a funder or corporate partner or have an idea for how to work together, please be in touch find out how on the Support Us page.