Nottingham City Council leader aims to finalize land sale to Nottingham Forest for stadium redevelopment by March 2025.
The leader of Nottingham City Council has reaffirmed hopes a deal to sell land the City Ground sits on to Nottingham Forest will conclude early in 2025. Back in July the Labour-led council agreed to make the land available for sale to the club for an undisclosed fee. The deal is seen as critical for the club to realise its redevelopment masterplan for the West Bridgford-based football ground.
The council said at the time it was looking to conclude the sale and receive the money in the 2024/25 financial year, which ends in March 2025. However the club said any deal would be conditional to the relevant planning permissions to expand the Bridgford Stand. Currently the club only has permission to redevelop the Peter Taylor stand, following approval in 2022, but, to meet its goal of increasing stadium capacity to 40,000, it will need approval to expand the Bridgford Stand, too. Providing an update in December Cllr Neghat Khan, the leader of the council, reaffirmed she hoped the deal will conclude by the end of March despite delays. She says she understands the club are currently negotiating what are known as Section 106 agreements with Rushcliffe Borough Council, which is the planning authority. Councils typically grant planning permission to developers on the proviso they contribute financially to affordable housing, and local education, employment and infrastructure opportunities, in a bid to reduce the impact of a scheme, under what’s known as a Section 106 agreement. The delays, Cllr Khan said, relate to the resignation of the club’s former chairman, Tom Cartledge, in October. He has since been replaced by Nicholas Randall KC, who was reappointed having been in the position for six years after Evangelos Marinakis bought the club in 2017
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