Sep 09, 2006

green light for new stadium

newstadium Liverpool's new stadium has been given the go ahead by the council after granting the club a 999 year lease of Stanley Park.

The new stadium has been discussed for a long time, and Liverpool have failed to come up with the money so far to build the new home for the reds.

Costs have spiralled, and alot of different figures have been quoted, but Liverpool have to prove they can come up with the funds for the new stadium by the end of september.

Liverpool council Leader Warren Bradley spoke about the stadium plans : "This is the last piece of the jigsaw as far as the city council is concerned, and it leaves the door open now for the football club to move forward with their stadium proposals,"

"The council have signed over the land on a lease to the club, and a joint venture agreement with them."

"We would then expect the club to go on site probably in January to start building the new stadium with the expectation that by September 2009 we will see them in a new stadium which is good news for Liverpool and good news for the Anfield community and good news for the city.

"Liverpool Football Club is one of the best known and most successful in the world yet it stands in one of the poorest areas, not only in the city, but in the country.

"We can now provide a new home for the football club fitting for their status as one of the world's best, and at the same time use their success to spark a dramatic revival of the Anfield and Breckfield areas.

"For the past five years we have worked with the Anfield-Breckfield Partnership Forum on the strategy to regenerate the area and every consultation with the local community has shown overwhelming support for this scheme.

"This is a golden opportunity for north Liverpool to be transformed".

Rafa Benitez welcomed the news, saying :
"It's very good news and it's important for us to have a stadium with a lot of possibilities for our supporters,"

"We have the best supporters in the world and if we can have 60,000 of them in for every game at Anfield it would be better"

1 Comment
  • Anonymous

    I felt sick about the new stadium is being built on the historic Stanley Park, where would the dog walkers go and there wont be any green space around the stadium and there would be more gangs lurking around the stadium. Will the cemetery will be demolished too? All animals in the park will be killed and there wont be any more trees around that place. Its very very greedy to built new stadium there, why cant they built new stadium near East Lancaster Road, theres mass empty space for many years and most houses are demolished there too. I born and bred in Liverpool, I am sure most Scousers arent that happy with the new stadium, Non-Scousers doesnt have any clue about the new Stadium. They only watch football here and go back to their own home town. Every time when I walked along Utting Avenue, there were many cars parking illegly there. I am glad that I dont live there, of course many residents are fed up with them, It will be more worse if the stadium goes ahead. I am sure more houses will be put up for sale. I will sell my house and I know the prices of houses will drop down rapidly because of the stadium. No one wants that. But the person who bought the stadium doesnt know about English Culture at all. They dont know about working people lives. I hope people would be aware of it.
    Dave Longworth (100% Liverpudlian)

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