Overview
- Skeletal human remains were discovered on the construction site at The Midway in Newcastle-under-Lyme and a police scene was put in place while initial enquiries began.
- Developer Capital & Centric has halted work at the basement level of the Karparc site and says it is cooperating with investigators, while other local sites it runs remain active.
- The location is the Karparc conversion, a plan to turn the former 655-space Midway multi-storey into 111 apartments after Newcastle Borough Council had planned demolition.
- The discovery interrupts a project developers hoped to finish in about 18 months and could delay the construction timetable as forensic work continues.
- Staffordshire Police have not publicly identified the remains or given a cause of death and say enquiries are ongoing, with further updates expected as investigators complete examinations.