The sinkhole in Boatman Drive, Etruria, means residents in the street, along with Boatman Walk and Waterlily Close, have no vehicular access to their homes. Stoke-on-Trent City Council closed the road to traffic for safety reasons in August 2019, and the authority remains locked in a dispute over the issue with developer Redrow. The subsidence issue in Boatman Drive, believed to be caused by a void beneath the road surface, dates back to February 2018.
