Enabling work starts on stadium

Last updated : 25 June 2008 By Al Campbell
Liverpool City Council granted the club full planning permission on June 19th to build a 60,000 seater stadium in Stanley Park and outline planning permission for a mixed use development on the site of the current stadium.

"This is a significant milestone for the club and I am delighted that the design received full planning consent and that we are now on site," said George Gillett.

"We have been working very hard over the last six months to move the details of the design along but this is the first tangible evidence for fans that a New LFC Stadium will be built.

"The stadium design is unique and will be recognised across the world as the Liverpool FC Stadium. It incorporates a Kop stand that will hold 18,000 fans and we hope that the stadium will be as noisy and atmospheric on a matchday as Anfield."

"We recognise the importance of a new LFC Stadium as part of the wider regeneration of the local area," said Tom Hicks.
 
"We have watched the council transform Stanley Park over the last six months and the ongoing refurbishment of houses in the Anfield/ Breckfield area. I am pleased that now the club has received full planning permission it can join the regeneration process with the commencement of enabling works."

The new stadium is expected to be ready in time for the start of the 2011/12 season.