Liverpool Gets Green Light For £400m Stadium

Premier League club Liverpool’s proposal for a new £400m stadium at Stanley Park
has won the green light from the local City Council.

The 60,000 capacity ground won the unanimous approval by Liverpool City
Council planning committee after a five-hour meeting.

The new stadium will hold 15,000 more fans than the existing site, but that
could increase to 75,000 in the future.

The plan was resubmitted to planners after the club’s new American owners Tom
Hicks and George Gillett expressed problems with the initial proposals.

The new stadium will hold 114 executive boxes, twice the number in the
original design, and will regenerate public land which stands between Anfield
and Everton’s ground, Goodison Park.

A spokesman for Liverpool FC said work on the new stadium could begin almost
immediately and was expected to be finished by August 2011 with HKS Architects
in charge of the project.