Stadium Expansion *APPROVED* Sept ‘22 - Details / Images Released on Planning Site

[CosbehFox]

Just now, purpleronnie said:

I never said they didn't, I'm just stating all the investment has been into the training complex, just like us.  We were once very vocal about expanding the stadium.  I hope they are more successful.

Yeah I get that and maybe I should have included this at first. 

 

They had to build the training ground anyway to enable them moving from their existing training ground which is adjacent to the ground (therefore now space to redevelop). So the training ground investment was always going to their first intention 

[Guest WarehamFox]

2 hours ago, purpleronnie said:

I'm aware, and the old training complex stopped expansion, but the facts are the same.

But how can Luton afford or justify it when they have crowds of 15000 🤷‍♂️ for decades. Their parachute payments end next season and maybe in league one too. They must have very rich owners and/or a very obliging council. 

[purpleronnie]

32 minutes ago, WarehamFox said:

But how can Luton afford or justify it when they have crowds of 15000 🤷‍♂️ for decades. Their parachute payments end next season and maybe in league one too. They must have very rich owners and/or a very obliging council. 

Not sure how obliging they are given a new ground has been in the works for 40 years.  They sourced the funds by private investors, they actually bought some land to build the new stadium a decade a go and will be selling that to help fund the new one.

[Goldfox]

Surely it’s time to get a shift on with ours now!? If you build it they will come ……hope the claudio ranieri is bouncing next season, Cov at home 1st game of the season again too!!!

[Bluearmyfox28]

On 30/04/2025 at 22:06, Trav Le Bleu said:

If this were already done we wouldn't be in half the PSR mess we are.

This is something I was about to post myself. You would think for a team like ours struggling with PSR we would be looking for every opportunity to raise further capital that isn’t affected by PSR. 
 

The stadium expansion is right there for them, which doesn’t fill me with hope that it’s going to be done.

[Oldblueyes]

You would think with the lack of action in the current state of play and in any future development with this project, is it now time for the Mod's to end this thread and we just all move on.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Think the season ticket turnover this summer will kill what remaining chance this had of being put in place. 

[Spudulike]

If only the club would communicate with us. It doesn't need to be a grand statement, just something along the lines confirming that it's not feasible for now but is still in the long term plans. Doesn't commit them to anything and we can forget about it until we re-establish as a top 10 Premier League club and no one can get tickets.

[davieG]

37 minutes ago, Oldblueyes said:

You would think with the lack of action in the current state of play and in any future development with this project, is it now time for the Mod's to end this thread and we just all move on.

The best way to end it is to stop posing in it. Now I've helped keeping it on the front page.

[RoboFox]

The club have killed this themselves. We have reverted back to the mean, and a 40k stadium isn't going to be needed for a yo-yo Championship club. 

 

Another casualty of the negligence of our board. Such a shame, as this was properly exciting. 

 

What could've been, eh?

[Goldfox]

Season tickets have sold out again and I think we’d easily sell 27,000+ , 4 to 5000 away fans that’d leave 8000 for general sale, i can’t understand why can’t we just get a shift on with this 

[The Hitman]

5 minutes ago, Goldfox said:

Season tickets have sold out again and I think we’d easily sell 27,000+ , 4 to 5000 away fans that’d leave 8000 for general sale, i can’t understand why can’t we just get a shift on with this 

Because of the match day ticket prices, we will rarely sell 8000 at £50+ after membership for second division football. 

[promised land]

13 minutes ago, Goldfox said:

Season tickets have sold out again and I think we’d easily sell 27,000+ , 4 to 5000 away fans that’d leave 8000 for general sale, i can’t understand why can’t we just get a shift on with this 

Away fans get 3000 max or thereabouts, absolutely no way you’d give them more tickets, Old Trafford only allocate 3000 in the away end give or take a few with a 70k plus capacity.

 

By giving them more tickets you’re giving the bigger clubs more advantage on the road, they’d sell 4-5k easily but you just wouldn’t allow it apart from the cup allocations which is different.

 

Second tier I think it’s 2k minimum allocation but I could be wrong there, top flight is 3k though.

[Guest worth_the_wait]

On 14/05/2025 at 09:57, RoboFox said:

The club have killed this themselves. We have reverted back to the mean, and a 40k stadium isn't going to be needed for a yo-yo Championship club. 

Another casualty of the negligence of our board. Such a shame, as this was properly exciting. 

What could've been, eh?

Of all the incompetence from those who run our Club over the last decade ...............

 

When we got promoted in 2014, they should've been thinking about ground expansion (and performed some preliminary/basic investigation).

When we stayed up in 2015, they should've firmed up on the plans to actually do something about it (and created a detailed plan of action)

When we won the league in 2016, they should've been ready to start work pretty much immediately.   Or at the very least the year after.

 

The fact that the ground looks just as it did 10 years ago, says it all about our Club owners/CEO/DoF, and any other anonymous buffoon who supposedly runs our club.

 

[Nolucklcfc]

Ship has fully sailed on this. Will probably never happen now. Not while the same people remain people in charge. 

[Kp1984]

Yeh this is dead now won’t happen unfortunately 

[DJW1]

As stated above the lack of action and comment from the club suggests that it has been abandoned or delayed. I´m not a businessman, but if the idea is still alive then perhaps it will happen when interest rates are lower and so are the costs of borrowing money to fund it

[VLC86]

Give it another season in the championship and another points deduction and we aren’t selling 23k season tickets 

[JimmyC74]

Construction costs always go up and waiting means that growing our commercial revenues will be constrained, making it hard to get out of the tractor beam of PSR.  I don't see it moving forward under KP unless new investors are brought in to share the load of build cost. Sadly.

Edited 5 June 2025 by JimmyC74

[CrispinLA in Texas]

Even the so called expansion looks abit outdated now

[Sol thewall Bamba]

34 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

Even the so called expansion looks abit outdated now

Always did, seeing as it was just designed to look like the headquarters of a far eastern duty free company.

[Pliskin]

Imagine planning to expand your stadium, taking out a loan to do so, and then not doing it because you’re so shit at your job, you can’t…… 

[Tommy G]

Interesting update from the Birmingham chairman about their new sports quarter development. Talks to the camera, lays down what’s happening and how. Americans just do this kind of thing right 

[Pita]

2 hours ago, DJW1 said:

As stated above the lack of action and comment from the club suggests that it has been abandoned or delayed. I´m not a businessman, but if the idea is still alive then perhaps it will happen when interest rates are lower and so are the costs of borrowing money to fund it

King power have lost interest in the club. Can’t see it happening 

[Stevosevic]

9 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Interesting update from the Birmingham chairman about their new sports quarter development. Talks to the camera, lays down what’s happening and how. Americans just do this kind of thing right 

Yep. Americans know what they’re doing with stuff like this