What do you make of City Ground expansion plans?
A major revamp of Nottingham Forest's stadium has been approved that will see the existing Peter Taylor Stand demolished and replaced with a 10,000-seater stand, increasing the City Ground's overall capacity by nearly 5,000 to bring it up to 35,000."It's worth noting there is a big difference between the outline planning permission the scheme had before [in 2022] and the full planning permission it has now. "It's also an incredibly complex project which has needed all sorts of technical adjustments as well as a lot of haggling over those section 106 agreements [requirements for Forest to make contributions to local infrastructure]."But in a funny sort of way, part of the answer may also lie in Forest's success on the pitch. Having spent three years in the Premier League and secured European football since the plans were first considered, the club clearly now has even bigger ambitions."Those ambitions prompted the question - why pump hundreds of millions of pounds into redeveloping a site where the lease will run out in the coming years?"That triggered the very public row with the City Council last year, and while that row now seems to have been resolved, it was just one factor of many which combined to slow everything down."Read the full news article hereWhat do you make of the plans?How important is a ground expansion for Forest's future?Send us your thoughts
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