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Plans for a new stadium for Everton FC – plus a major housing and retail development – on Walton Hall Park have been abandoned.
The club and Liverpool council have confirmed they will now be looking elsewhere for new home for the Blues.
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson has also pledged Walton Hall Park will “remain a park and will be designated as such” – ruling out future development there.
The council and club now say they are looking at two other unnamed sites in the city for a new stadium for Everton FC after admitting the proposal for Walton Hall Park “was always ambitious”.
A joint statement from the council and Everton FC said: “Liverpool City Council and Everton Football Club can confirm they have been working together over recent months to investigate alternative plans for a new stadium for Everton Football Club.
“These new plans no longer focus on Walton Hall Park but on two other potential sites brownfield sites within the city boundary.
Last year Liverpool’s Mayor Joe Anderson said Everton had not shown it could afford the plan for a stadium and development of Walton Hall Park estimated to cost £300m.
Robert Elstone, chief executive of Everton Football Club said: “Our work with the council, particularly over the last few months, has been positive and progressive and whilst our work evaluating the alternatives is at an early stage, we are hopeful that the new sites provide us with a much more straightforward, deliverable opportunity to build a new stadium.”
新球場又觸礁,已經是第二個選址(Kirkby and Walton hall park) 被 ban,現時公告話另外有2個地點正在考慮,而選址應該在城市邊緣而並非市中心,原先計劃要3憶鎊,愛華頓亦沒有足夠發展資金,如果是在市郊地點,相信地價之類較平,當賣掉goodison 球場,再賣埋冠名權後應該可以借少些資金,對球會財政較健康。 |
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