The partially completed East Stand at Northampton Town's Sixfields Stadium serves as a stark reminder of the club's troubled history with redevelopment plans. Years of legal battles, missing funds, and stalled construction have left supporters disillusioned and the stadium a symbol of unfulfilled promises.
Sixfields' East Stand is a painful reminder of the misery that may never fully heal. The good news is that you can at least watch a match from Northampton Town ’s East Stand now. Its seating is split into two. Behind them, work is still in progress. The project is on track, the club say, to be completed in the first quarter of 2025, with hospitality areas, a link road around Sixfields Stadium , extra car parking spaces and a new concourse area for the seats in the stand.
You would forgive Northampton Town supporters for not holding their breath in anticipation of that or any other date. Cobblers? You haven’t heard the half of it. It encompasses a missing £10m, a seven-year investigation, a reported four million pieces of evidence and, at the time of writing, no serious convictions. Oh, and one unfinished stand. A year later, they agreed a new 150-year lease for Sixfields and revealed their intention to redevelop the stadium and increase the capacity to 15,000. Fast forward to July 2012, when Northampton Borough Council agreed to accept planning permission to develop Sixfields and the area around it. Because that area was situated in a designated enterprise zone, any development needed to create an agreed number of new jobs, meaning the project was to include shops, offices and a hotel. By July 2013, the exact details of that project were agreed, including the East Stand increasing to a capacity of 4,000. The council agreed to lend the club around £10m to help complete the redevelopment. You will hear a bit more about that money.The new intended capacity of Sixfields was reduced to only 8,500 and the development of retail and residential limited to a supermarket, several shops and a couple of hundred homes. Work did start but, by 2015, it had been temporarily stopped due to what the club described as a “contractual dispute”
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