Stadium changes

The following you can find via the link provided to Haringey Council. It outlines proposed changes that are being recommended to be accepted.

Update on progress of proposals for Major Sites - Haringey Council

Site: Section 73 for Spurs Stadium
Description
The S73 is to provide a new basement level beneath the approved stadium in order accommodate some of the already consented car parking spaces proposed at ground floor level, as well as plant and storage areas, and amendments to the consented ground floor layout to allow for extended player changing facilities, enhanced media facilities and other associated stadium uses. No changes are proposed to the external appearance or the height, scale and mass of the consented stadium.

Timescales/comments
To be reported to committee on 22 June with a positive recommendation. No additional impacts over current approval.

There is plenty of discussion surrounding the stadium and if we are going to have a tie up with an NFL franchise, popular with the money men and power brokers in the US, however with little support on the ground.

The Premier League playing one game a season has often been debated, it's something the Premier League power men want to expand the product but the man on the street isn't interested, the Americans understandable feel the same about an NFL team in London. TV money talks though just as the Premier League will, probably get their way so the NFL bosses will no doubt take their expansion project forward.

The deal Tottenham are trying to work out is a complex one and Wembley are still vying for the right to host the games so it is not cut and dried a deal will be reached, however the 'extended player changing facilities' are not needed for Premier League football.

Fans recently voted, or at least Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust fans voted that they would prefer Wembley to MK Dons but it's a rather pointless vote when the fans don't know the issues surrounding any decision. It seems pretty certain we are going to MK Dons for a season as they will have the capacity and a new stadium.

Wembley, which is restricted in the number of events it can hold anyway, would have to shut the top tier for Spurs games to reduce capacity to around 56,000. Personally I don't see extra Spurs fans turning out to go to Wembley, it isn't our stadium and it would not doubt cost us more to play there anyway.

I expect it to be announced as MK Dons and have no objections at all.

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