A detailed application has today been submitted for Luton Town Football Club’s new 25,000-capacity stadium at Power Court, with CEO Gary Sweet calling it a “pivotal moment” for fans and the town who will see a new design that breaks the mould.
The application will now be formally validated by planning officers once everything is found to be complete, which could take up to two weeks. At that point all the documents and the full details of the stadium will be publicly available, but two new images have been released.
The club and its development company, 2020 Developments, have also said that he hybrid application will include an updated outline submission for a hotel and music venue.
The club will now focus on working with Luton Council officers to secure a determination date before the end of the year, which would enable construction of the stadium to begin within six months and a final completion by 2027.
Sweet, Chief Executive of Luton Town Football Club and 2020 Developments said: “This important announcement is a pivotal moment for all supporters, residents and businesses of Luton. It also marks an important milestone for everyone who has worked tirelessly and diligently on the project over the last few months to shape it masterfully into the magnificent building we have presented to the planning officers.
“Once our lives changed 16 months ago with promotion at Wembley, concurrent to the gargantuan task of getting Kenilworth Road Premier League ready – which naturally dominated our workload for most of last year – we decided to reassemble a design team to take a fresh look at the whole Power Court project from foundations upwards. All in light of the new ambition, we wanted to embrace for our club going forwards, demonstrated by the proposal to build to a 25,000 stadium capacity in one phase.
“We hand-picked and structured an elite design team of architects, engineers and technicians who have been working with us, crafting every floor and corner of our new stadium to a detailed stage such that it can now be submitted, publicly aired and presented as a well-prepared detailed design instruction for contractors.
“I personally want to take this opportunity to give a huge thanks to the entire team of specialist technicians who have submerged themselves into this colossal task so efficiently and to do so by breaking the mould in stadium design. They have pushed the boundaries beyond the norm in order to remain loyal to our original desired look and feel and have incorporated more unique cultural characteristics that will make this a familiar home for us all.”
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