Highbury Stadium faces big test
02 February 2010

Blue Square North leaders Fleetwood Town face their one of their biggest matches so far this season on Wednesday afternoon. 

It won’t be Micky Mellon leading the team into action but club chairman Andy Pilley as plans for the ambitious £4m flagship stand are presented to Wyre Borough Council planning bosses.

The building will contain a 2,000 capacity seated stand and is earmarked for the run down side of the ground bordering the Memorial Park.  The development will include new community changing facilities for the Memorial Park, IT & learning suites and office facilities for rental to non-football concerns.  In addition, operational enhancements will include a function lounge, executive boxes, club offices and club shop.
 
Pilley said “Whilst we aren't taking anything for granted, we have worked closely with the planners throughout the design stage, and are confident that we will get the go ahead on Wednesday. If we do, we then need to put the major packages out to tender with a view to our starting construction as early as April. With a nine month projected build time, the new stand should be in use in early 2011.”

The new east structure will be the fourth and final stand at the redeveloped Highbury Stadium.

Details of the planning application can be found here

Drawings of the new stand can be found here