werthersoriginal
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The thing is, a professional sports stadium isn’t ‘leisure facilities ‘ for housing, is it? It’s used rarely and isn’t available to most of the people in the housing. It’s not really suitable to be very close to housing at all, due to traffic and crowds. That said, I really do hope any new ground is within reach of town. It certainly wouldn’t get planning permission if it relied on people driving there.With regard to sites there are several plots of green belt land that have been considered for development. I have posted on this several times.
All these plots are within easy distance of the city. Some would be impractical and some would only be suitable for housing but, there are some that would/could make complete sense of a sports facility with adjacent "related" civic/entertainment construction.
This is still a big if, and requires central government permission but, the need for housing with related leisure facility could work in the clubs favour.
FK would come out a winner as well (shame) as the present stadium would be surplus. Just how much of that he would be allowed to sell for development given his track record would be interesting.