{"id":683073,"date":"2026-01-08T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683073\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:32:11","slug":"leeds-news-have-your-say-on-elland-road-expansion-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683073\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds news: Have your say on Elland Road expansion plans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Leeds City council have approved plans to <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c89qyp49z2po\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">redevelop Elland Road<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">, with capacity set to increase by more than 15,000.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The expansion will see Leeds United&#8217;s ground become the seventh largest stadium in English football, as it jumps from 37,645 seats to about 53,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chairman Paraag Marathe said: &#8220;As custodians of this great club, we are committed to its long-term success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today&#8217;s decision supports our ambition to establish Leeds in the Premier League and continue progressing over the years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club said the regeneration would help meet demand from supporters, with 26,000 people currently on a waiting list for a season ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will allow Leeds to bid to host fixtures in major international tournaments and generate about \u00a329m annually for the region&#8217;s economy, the club said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, how do you feel about the expansion? Are you excited for the redevelopment or do you think it is not a priority?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/send\/u192437345\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get in touch with your views here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds City council have approved plans to redevelop Elland Road, with capacity set to increase by more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-683073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115861621718146438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683073","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=683073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}