A Stoke-on-Trent business says its new 'state-of-the-art' automated warehouse will create more than 100 jobs.

Tile Mountain has submitted plans to demolish the existing buildings on the former Johnson Tiles site in Harewood Street, Tunstall and replace them with a new purpose-built distribution facility.

The company, which already occupies five buildings in the area, says the development will allow it to expand further, with the creation of 102 new jobs.

These jobs will include 60 warehouse picking and packing staff along with engineers, managers, IT workers and security guards.

According to the firm's planning statement, the new warehouse would be fitted with state-of-the-art automation systems that retrieve and place goods for distribution.

The application states: "The development will form the final phase of development by the applicant in this area, utilising brownfield land within a regeneration and Enterprise Zone.

"The proposal would provide jobs and growth to the local economy. The proposals fully accord with local policies in terms of the principle of development."

The proposed building would have a significantly smaller footprint that the existing buildings – 25,557sqm compared to 48,000sqm – which the application says will allow for more landscaping across the site. The new warehouse would be taller, but 'entirely in keeping' with the surrounding area.

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Access to site would still be via Harewood Street, and 171 parking spaces are proposed.

The development will include 'significant landscape enhancements' to the part of the site next to the Trent and Mersey Canal, and two balancing ponds would be created.

Planners at Stoke-on-Trent City Council are expected to make a decision by 25 November.

To read the full application, visit the Stoke-on-Trent City Council planning website here.