{"id":360676,"date":"2025-08-20T23:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360676\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:59:21","slug":"villa-park-expansion-plan-set-for-vote-in-birmingham-city-council-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360676\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Park expansion plan set for vote in Birmingham City Council committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Birmingham City Council\u2019s planning committee \u201cwill convene on August 28, with a view to voting on plans to expand\u201d Premier League club Aston Villa\u2019s stadium, according to Jacob Tanswell of THE ATHLETIC. Planning permission is \u201csought for the extension\u201d of Villa Park\u2019s North Stand, \u201cincreasing its size by 5,926 seats to take the ground\u2019s overall capacity to 48,809.\u201d This marks a \u201ckey date in Aston Villa\u2019s ambition to raise the maximum number of spectators above 50,000 in time for the 2028 European Championship,\u201d in which the stadium is \u201cset to be one of the nine grounds staging games.\u201d A raised capacity would also \u201cassist with Villa\u2019s efforts to grow matchday revenues, helping them comply with profitability and sustainability rules.\u201d The planning application has been \u201crecommended for approval by council planners and, therefore, work on extending the North Stand should be authorised.\u201d The plans will see the North Stand \u201chouse more than 12,000 spectators,\u201d while \u201cincremental additions to the three other sides of the ground will lead to the targeted capacity and, longer-term, to a 52,500-seat venue.\u201d Redevelopment proposals show a \u201chigher overall structure and seating in the upper tier of the North Stand than currently exists, with a redesigned lower tier also creating additional capacity.\u201d Planning permission had been \u201csecured in December 2022,\u201d though the project was \u201cshelved the following year.\u201d In the new application, Villa have \u201cused recommendations from 2022 to form the base of their planning\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6559836\/2025\/08\/19\/aston-villa-north-stand-planning-approval\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6559836\/2025\/08\/19\/aston-villa-north-stand-planning-approval\/\">THE ATHLETIC, 8\/19<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City Council\u2019s planning committee \u201cwill convene on August 28, with a view to voting on plans to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,78029,7900,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-360676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-international-soccer","13":"tag-legal","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115063814001705688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360676","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=360676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}