Spurs Receive Stadium Setback
Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur’s plans for a new stadium in north London are in jeopardy after the government’s architectural watchdog refused to fully back the project.
The club wants to build a new 56,250-seater arena adjacent to their current stadium White Hart Lane, but the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has expressed concerns at bringing certain aspects of the proposal together.
CABE’s main concern with the club’s Northumberland Development Project was the proposal of including a supermarket, new housing and a public square with the new stadium.
The report by CABE read, ‘We are concerned that an overall master plan for the site is not evident: the three components – the stadium, supermarket, and housing – feel like very separate projects without convincing spatial relationships between them.’
Haringey Council will now consider the report before making a decision over the planning application.
The club submitted a planning application last October and the proposed stadium was included as a possible venue should England win their bid to host the 2018 World Cup.
