Exclusive: Forest's £100m World Cup super stadium dream
A £100m super stadium is part of a plan to bring the World Cup to Nottingham.
The 50,000-seat stadium, on land next to Holme Pierrepont, would be the new home of Nottingham Forest and enable the city to host matches during the 2018 World Cup.
It would form part of a massive development to create a sports quarter based around the watersports centre.
The Football Association is preparing a bid to bring the World Cup to England in ten years' time.
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The FA visited Nottingham this week and told a meeting of Forest officials and council leaders the city will be one of the 12 Cup venues, provided it can deliver a world-class stadium.
But time is short. Forest and the politicians have to deliver their plans to the FA by January 2010, leaving little more than a year for negotiations to be concluded.
The stadium would be built on land between Lady Bay and Holme Pierrepont, off Regatta Way. The sports quarter would include:
A 10,000-seat community stadium to host rugby, athletics and national and international sports events
Sports pitches
Water sports – diving, sailing, angling, as well as the existing white water canoe course, rowing lake and water skiing
A golf course
Nature reserve with walking and cycling routes
Cafés, spa and five-star hotel.
The scheme will depend on the support of Nottingham City Council, Notts County Council and Rushcliffe Borough Council.
City council leader Jon Collins said: "I am enthusiastic and we are going to do what we can to help."
See Saturday's Evening Post for more reaction to the plans. Plus, more comment, analysis and reaction through the week on our website and in the Post.
Comments
by Ian, Perth, Western Australia
Saturday, September 13 2008, 9:20AM
“Nice to hear that Nottingham are thinking about the future, I hope they consider the wide section of people who support Forest, making user friendly. You all should be grateful that the local council are developing the city, yes, there maybe draw backs, but it is down to local people to support it. These kinds of plans could bring more people to Nottingham and hopefully encourage people like myself back. Good on Nottingham i am proud to say i am from Nottingham.”
by alan smith, west bridgford
Tuesday, September 09 2008, 7:25PM
“an enlarged city ground would seat all the supporters forest are likely to get, we did not get 50000 when Cloughie was here so what hope now or in the future. I do not want to go to a half empty stadium with no atmosphere.Put the horse before the cart and get a premiership team before we embark on grand ideas.the world cup is by no means certain for England and what would we do with it then. No, this idea is a white elephant in the making.”
by david, gotham
Monday, September 08 2008, 4:53PM
“also as anyone looked at the bunbury bus depot in meadows knock it down and the surronding poor housing build the stadium there ,with a new street linkij=ng the city centre and station it could house offices shops bars etc ..oh new bars in nottm .4 got police councillors want a dry nootm even that place dierby more bars than nootm .”
by david, gotham
Monday, September 08 2008, 4:50PM
“wiil people stop saying lets share.we dont want share and notts c 4000.fans dont and they be lost in 50000 seats.come on councillors .forget the nimby let get this built....a tram link and new road from town is fantastic its 10 min from where we are now ok we have leave pubs bit earlierbut if we carnt have atown centre site this will do”
by DAVE THE RED, GOTHAM
Monday, September 08 2008, 4:45PM
“YES GOTHAM WAS WRONG .BUT HOLME PIERPIONT /IS NOT THAT FAR FROM OWN ,THE BIGGEST DRAWBACK THE COUNCIL.NOOTM IS FAMOUS FOR NOT PASSING PLANS THROUGH THAT WILL BENEFIT NOTTINGHAM.WE ARE YEARS BEHIND WITH TALL BUILDINGS SHOPS.OFFICES THIS COULD LAUNCH NOTTINGHAM ON A NEW LEVEL.IF THIS DOSENT HAPPEN ,ITS TIME TO VOTE OUT CITY COUNCILLORS LET THEM GET A REAL JOB AND STOP RUINING NOTTM”
by andy, derby
Monday, September 08 2008, 6:39AM
“It'll never happen.
You Notts Forist fans ( all 10,000 of you ) will always be in the shadow of the Derby.
You RAMS !!”
by riverside gal, by the river
Sunday, September 07 2008, 6:20PM
“Seems a shame to put so much development in that area and it will not be easy to get to. If the proposed new road were made open to public transport and pedestrians only then people would just drive along Trent Boulevard. It seems to me that a much better option would be to redevelop Meadow Lane and have Forest and County share it. It is easy to get to from the city centre and although that area has long been earmarked for redevelopment, nothing has got started there yet.”
by rob red till dead, the meadows
Saturday, September 06 2008, 1:19PM
“why is this bambam chap always talking about forest and reading the NOTTINGHAM evening post beats me i never say owt about derby nor do the forest faithful till match days then we only sing we hate derby”
by patrick, in he colonies
Saturday, September 06 2008, 2:51AM
“I like the idea of the rugby stadium. The rugby team are the most successful team Notts has at the moment...oint second in the first division last season.”
by Kate, Wisconsin
Saturday, September 06 2008, 2:44AM
“i would go see it if it were there!!”