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BBC News
4 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Nottingham Forest City Ground expansion recommended for approval
The long-awaited redevelopment of Nottingham Forest's stadium has been recommended for plans would see the existing Peter Taylor Stand demolished and replaced with a 10,000-seater stand, increasing the City Ground's overall capacity to 35, is due to be considered at a meeting of Rushcliffe Borough Council's planning committee on 26 club first unveiled plans for a major revamp in 2019, and outline planning permission was initially granted in 2022, but a number of technical updates have since been made and work has yet to begin. Council documents published on Wednesday say the "extended passage of time" means the application requires "fresh consideration."Construction was originally expected to cost around £94m, but an estimate from January 2025 indicates this has risen to £ latest report, however, states the proposed development would "contribute significantly to both the local and wider economy."Taking into account the structural roof trusses, the new stand would be approximately 38m (124ft) high, making it the tallest stand at the City state the development would also provide "improved staff/player infrastructure including spectator, hospitality and conferencing facilities".In addition, the club is seeking outline permission to build an apartment block with 169 units next to the ground.A joint statement released on Wednesday said: "Nottingham Forest has been in regular dialogue with Rushcliffe Borough Council, Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council regarding the redevelopment of the City Ground."The parties can confirm they are working towards the Rushcliffe Borough Council Planning Committee date of Thursday 26 June to consider the application. "There will be no further comment other than as required by the relevant legal process." If approved, it would pave the way for the club to buy the freehold of the land which the City Ground sits year, Forest's then-chairman said the club could relocate away from the ground because of a dispute with Nottingham City Council over the rent the club local authority has since agreed to sell the land, but the club previously said any decision to buy the freehold would be "entirely conditional" on it being granted planning permission for the stadium expansion.A number of objections to the development have been raised by local councillors and community groups, including increased congestion in the area on matchdays and a lack of parking report recommends the application is given full planning permission subject to a range of conditions, such as the club making financial contributions to local club will also be required to enter into a legal agreement with Nottingham Rowing Club to replace its Britannia boathouse, which is set to be demolished as part of the state the replacement facilities would have to be in place before any demolition work takes work on the new stand would then have to begin within three years of the conditions being owner Evangelos Marinakis has previously said he eventually hopes to increase the ground's capacity to 50,000.
New York Times
4 days ago
- Business
- New York Times
Nottingham Forest get City Ground expansion boost with council recommendation
Nottingham Forest's long-awaited redevelopment of the City Ground is finally set to get the go-ahead. The plans to knock down the current Peter Taylor stand and replace it with a new and bigger structure, taking the capacity up to 35,000, will be heard by Rushcliffe Borough Council on June 26. In a huge breakthrough for the club, the council's planning department has 'recommended that planning permission be granted subject to a series of planning conditions.' Advertisement Forest have previously stated that they will begin work as quickly as they can once they have full planning permission and that is likely to be next year. After that, the club intend to push through with plans to increase the capacity of the stadium to 40,000 by developing the Bridgford stand. As The Athletic revealed last year, the club also have an agreement in principle with Nottingham City Council, their current landlords, to buy the freehold for the land that the stadium occupies. 'Nottingham Forest has been in regular dialogue with Rushcliffe Borough Council, Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council regarding the redevelopment of the City Ground,' a joint statement from the club and council read on Wednesday. 'The parties can confirm they are working towards the Rushcliffe Borough Council Planning Committee date of Thursday, 26 June to consider the application. There will be no further comment other than as required by the relevant legal process.' ()
BBC News
11-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Government's £50m Casement Park pledge a 'crucial milestone'
GAA president Jarlath Burns has welcomed the government's "important and significant" contribution for the redevelopment of Casement Park, but added it is not the "final piece of the jigsaw".A £50m commitment for the west Belfast stadium project was confirmed as part of chancellor Rachel Reeves' Spending Review on the stadium, which has been derelict since 2013, will cost approximately £260m, of which £120m was already in place from the Stormont Executive (£62.5m), the Irish government (about £43m) and the GAA (£15m).That still leaves a shortfall of around £90m, although the GAA previously acknowledged it will need to increase its its statement, the GAA said Wednesday's announcement was a "crucial milestone that will be a key catalyst" in redeveloping the stadium. "From taking office, the secretary of state (Hilary Benn) has been clear that Casement Park needs to be delivered," said Burns. "He recognised the GAA's commitment and goodwill in sharing venues for the benefit of everyone in our society, dating back to the Maze Long Kesh project, and more recently offering Casement Park as a Euro 2028 Championship venue. "His support and that of the UK Government now represents a critical opportunity to finish this NI Executive flagship project, delivering the last remaining stadium of the 14-year Regional Stadia Programme, and helping to leave a lasting legacy not only for the Gaels of Antrim and Ulster, but for all of society."Burns added: "We know, however, that this is not the final piece of [the] jigsaw and there is much more work to do. The GAA will engage directly, with the NI Executive and the Department for Communities to ensure that all parties actively pursue, and secure, a full funding package that will deliver upon the GAA's strategic stadium need."Ulster GAA president Michael Geoghegan said: "With this announcement there is now growing momentum and belief that Antrim's home and Ulster's provincial stadium is a step closer."We look forward to the project getting started and hosting some of the largest, most exciting and significant games on the island of Ireland while also significantly adding to economic recovery and regeneration in Belfast and beyond."Casement Park: All you need to know about the stadium soap opera
New York Times
26-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Elland Road is being expanded. What do Leeds fans think of the plans?
Last week, Leeds United opened up its Centenary Pavilion for the latest exhibition around its plans for Elland Road's redevelopment. Across two days, supporters had 15 hours to assess literature, displays, a video simulation and a 3D model of how the stadium will look. Questions could be put to club representatives, and, crucially, there were dropboxes for feedback to be left about the proposals. The Athletic went along on day one and asked several supporters for their views on the 53,000-capacity plans at the stadium. Matt: 'I feel like we're in a safe pair of hands after so many years of charlatans. I feel like these are a safe pair of hands from the amount of detail, consideration and the fact that there's even the environmental aspect and the transport aspect. They're doing everything properly, there's no cutting corners, there's no trying to excite us just to win us over. This is a comprehensive plan.' Advertisement Simon: 'It's encouraging to know, with this amount of detail, they're going to match that on the pitch because you can't go with one and not the other. That's what gets you really excited to know what the future's going to bring.' Matt: 'I spend a lot of time at the London Stadium because my other half's a West Ham fan and it's awful. There's no soul, there's no identity, there's nothing. This just feels like it is Elland Road, but bigger. I know that sounds daft, but they could have gone for a Tottenham. Even Tottenham's stadium, it looks amazing, but we don't want that at all. It's exciting because it feels sensitive and in keeping, it looks like a proper stadium. The bars and concourses look a bit too posh for me. You've got to sacrifice something.' Matt: 'It's partly that, and it's partly just the actual aesthetics. It looks like a football stadium. It sounds weird, but it doesn't look like an arena. It does feel like it will still be a bit enclosed, which is a weird thing to say with a stadium that big, especially the Kop. The Kop feels like it should be a monster. I'll still want to be in the South Stand, which is silly. All these three stands and I still want to be in the South.' Matt: 'You can't accuse them of oversights, can you? I suppose the concourse areas, you don't want it to feel too much like you're at the cinema. You don't want it to feel too disconnected. It still wants to feel like a football ground. Whether that's heritage stuff on the walls or, I don't know, but I'd hate it to feel like you're in an airport or cinema. I'm sure it needs modernising, of course, but I'm hoping they do that in a way that still feels like you're at Elland Road.' Advertisement Matt: 'I usually get an Uber. I live in Farsley and it would take me so long to get to the ground. I've got a kid, so I've got limited time out of the house. To make the most of a matchday, I get an Uber, which I don't really like doing. It costs me extra. Sometimes we meet up in town and get the shuttle bus, if we've got a bit of extra time, but even then you've got to buy a return ticket, even if you're only going one way. If there were more options like that, I'd love to. They can't help the fact there's no train station nearby. Ian: 'It's impressive. The idea of expanding the stadium's something we've needed for ages. There's a lot of season ticket holders, and people wanting season tickets are in a waiting list. That's about 25,000 (people). I've got a season ticket in the West Stand at the moment, so my concern's about where my seat will be when it's redeveloped. 'I don't want to sit right at the back. I've sat right at the back in the East Stand and I don't like it. I like the height from the pitch in the West, and you get to know the people you sit near. I want to know how far I'm going to be away from where I currently sit. I like the Bremner Suite experience; it just works. There aren't too many people. You get a bit of a crowd atmosphere.' Ian: 'Obviously, the capacity increase is the biggest plus. It looks like they're going to develop outside the stadium and it definitely needs that. In the West Stand downstairs, it's clearly an old place. It needs upgrading. I've been to Man City and I didn't like what they've got. It's like being in McDonald's. What they can do about that, I don't know. It's interesting because I went to Manchester Airport recently and it's just grown. It's big, wide open spaces. I get you've got to move people through, but I quite like being in the West Stand, going through these little corridors.' Stephanie: 'I'm very much for it. The club needs it, the team needs it, the people need it, the area needs it. I have reservations because of the parking issues until we know what the actual transport plan is and what the parking arrangements are going to be. I'd love to be able to get on a train in Horsforth, get off in Leeds, change to another one that gets me to Cottingley and walk to the ground, instead of having to arrive three hours before kick-off, as I do now, park up and pay £8. That would be vital. Advertisement 'The other thing I've written down is I'm knocking on a bit now. I can't stand for as long as I could, or walk for as far as I used to be able to. By the time this is finished, I'll be 70. I've been a home season ticket holder since the 1970s. I used to go in the (Centenary) Pavilion here, meet my friends before the match and have something to eat, have a drink and then they took it off us to meet the corporate needs. They've asked about the space on the other side of the West Stand. If they could provide something for the ordinary fan, not the ones that can afford to pay £400 for a package, where we can get something to eat, have a sit down. That's gone since the pavilion was taken off us. We've really missed that. I've had a moan about that, but yes, I am in favour of the development. I just want them to crack on and get it done now.' Stephanie: 'We also need the parking. You can't rob Peter to pay Paul. You've got to make sure, especially the older generations, who can't walk as far, they need to be able to get as near as they can to park their cars, if they've got to come by car, which a lot of people do these days.' Stephanie: 'I like the way they have mirrored the exoskeleton from the East Stand around. The other key thing for me is leg room. I sit in the northeast corner. I have ridges under my knees at the end of matches, but the benefit of sitting there is that people in there tend to stay seated, not like the Kop, who stand throughout. 'I'd also be interested to find out how they're going to go about giving people access to the tickets in the new areas. I know an Everton fan who works with my son. Everton said people who've had season tickets for longer than 23 years or something have had first dibs to pick where they want to sit. I don't know if they've (Leeds) thought that far ahead. I certainly wouldn't want to move to an area where I've got to stand for the full 90 minutes.' Stephanie: 'I don't like the Red Bull thing plastered everywhere, unless they change the colour of it, but they (49ers) seem positive. I like (board member) Pete Lowy's enthusiasm and the fact he was on the bus (for the parade). The people they've got involved, the other sportspeople and celebrities, are raising the profile as well. 'They've all got pots of money, haven't they? If they want to throw it at the club, by all means, we'll spend it. I just want to make sure they give (Daniel) Farke enough to give us a Premier League team next season.'
BBC News
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
🎧 A trip to the pub
The BBC Radio Leeds 'Don't go to bed just yet' team pop down to the pub to talk stadium redevelopment at Elland Road and how it will impact the Buchan, Adam Pope and Kaiser Chiefs' bassist Simon Rix went to The Dragon pub in Wortley to look at a display of the plans and chat to also talk about ticket allocations and how they will be divided can listen to the latest episode and past editions on BBC Sounds.
