New designs for Pompey Stadium revealed
Added/updated: Tuesday 01 July 2008, Category: News summary
Portsmouth Football Club and developers Sellar Property Group have unveiled new designs for a proposed 36,000-seater stadium on Horsea Island. The announcement comes after plans for a stadium on another site, The Hard, were scrapped in November following security concerns from the Royal Navy, which operates a base next to the site. If the planning application is approved, work on the project could begin in 2009 and construction of the new stadium the following year. The Blues could be playing in the new £100m stadium at the start of the 2011-12 season. This project, along with proposed plans for the redevelopment of the football club’s 17-acre Fratton Park site into retail and residential uses, will create several thousand jobs.