{"id":288400,"date":"2025-07-24T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288400\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:02:20","slug":"new-bristol-arena-could-have-larger-capacity-of-20000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288400\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bristol arena ‘could have larger capacity of 20,000’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Billingham, Chief Executive of YTL Arena, said: “We want to attract the biggest artists and events to Bristol, so increasing the capacity to 20,000 is really important to us.<\/p>\n

“We’ll achieved this by maximising the size of the floor of what will be our standing area, where concertgoers will be stood on the very same concrete where Concorde was built.”<\/p>\n

The Filton arena was promoted as a more affordable alternative to a previously council-backed scheme next to Bristol Temple Meads railway station.<\/p>\n

That was first proposed in 2003, but building work never started, and while the plan was resurrected in the 2010s<\/a>, former city mayor Marvin Rees scrapped the plan.<\/p>\n

While construction is yet to begin on the Filton arena, work on a railway station to bring concert-goers to the venue is under way.<\/p>\n

The brand new station, North Filton, is set open as an unstaffed station<\/a> in late 2026, though this is set to be enlarged later when the arena nears completion.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, hundreds of people have already bought and moved into new homes as part of the development, and there are plans for schools, student accommodation and sports facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Billingham, Chief Executive of YTL Arena, said: “We want to attract the biggest artists and events to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114909291962950474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}