{"id":555148,"date":"2025-11-07T13:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/555148\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:06:20","slug":"birmingham-get-400m-boost-to-support-new-stadium-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/555148\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Get \u00a3400m Boost to Support New Stadium Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Birmingham City have received formal recognition of the government\u2019s commitment to support their transformative Sports Quarter with a \u00a3400m boost.<\/p>\n<p>The West Midlands Combined Authority plans to ring-fence the cash at its meeting on November 14 as the first part of a tranche of public money aimed at helping to deliver the \u00a32.5-\u00a33bn development.<\/p>\n<p>The latest report being considered by the WMCA board confirms the promise made by chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/tag\/birmingham-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>\u2019s owners, Knighthead Capital, that money would be forthcoming from central government coffers to support their ambitious plans. <\/p>\n<p>                        Birmingham Planning for new 62,000-Seater Stadium<\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"1650\" height=\"826\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tom wagner\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tom-wagner.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tom-wagner.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Sports Quarter development forms a key part of a Major Investment Prospectus, launched at a Regional Investment Submit, hosted in Birmingham last month. <\/p>\n<p>These funds were part of a larger chunk of cash aimed at delivering overall transport infrastructure improvements and the decision has been taken to support the Blues in their bid to transform the 125-acre site.<\/p>\n<p>Details regarding the new 62,000 all-seater stadium at the heart of the project are due for release later this month.<\/p>\n<p>But the \u00a3400m will aid the vital infrastructure necessary to transport people to and from the venue and open up a route through east Birmingham to north Solihull.<\/p>\n<p>It has been allocated to the first phase of the above tram system. The money will also be used to upgrade nearby Adderley Park train station.<\/p>\n<p>The later is seen as being vital to ferry spectators to and from the new stadium as part of a larger infrastructure play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City have received formal recognition of the government\u2019s commitment to support their transformative Sports Quarter with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-555148","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115508570227499303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555148","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=555148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}