Overview
- Rushcliffe Borough Council’s planning committee granted full permission to demolish and replace the Peter Taylor Stand and to redevelop the Trent End, and gave outline permission for an enlarged Brian Clough Stand that would raise capacity to about 52,500.
- The approvals are conditional so demolition cannot begin until the club submits and gains sign-off for a new matchday crowd-flow plan that could include a new pedestrian and cycle bridge over the River Trent.
- Nottingham Forest must commit more than £4 million to local transport and infrastructure measures, including about £990,000 earmarked for parking controls in surrounding streets.
- Highways authorities in Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City have rejected the club’s proposal to close two traffic lanes on Trent Bridge permanently, leaving other crossing and traffic-management options to be agreed.
- The scheme would remove six nearby houses to create a public plaza and reconfigure coach and car parking, and the Brian Clough Stand rebuild still needs later detailed design approvals before work can proceed on that phase.