Fulham Football Club verified that its plans to redevelop the Riverside Stand at Craven Cottage have been authorized complying with a planning hearing at London Borough of Hammersmith as well as Fulham on Tuesday 20 March 2018.
Consultations with advocates as well as regional residents were held last October at two exhibitions at Craven Cottage. complying with an in-depth, club-led consultation process, the Populous-designed stand was submitted to the Council in December 2017.
The Club’s previous Riverside Stand style got planning consent in 2013 as well as this improved plan likewise integrates the opening of the riverside walk from Putney to Hammersmith, an element of the authorized style as well as a major benefit to the regional area, in addition to improved facilities for individuals on both match as well as non-match days.
The new stand will boost the general capability of Craven Cottage as well as the primary works are expected to commence in the summertime of 2019, with a full timeline of arranged works revealed in due course.
Fulham Football Club Chairman, Shahid Khan, stated after last week’s successful planning hearing:
Our goal for a brighter future for Fulham Football Club, the Camiseta Atletico Madrid neighbourhood, our borough as well as all of London is now at our doorstep. Tonight’s news wouldn’t be possible if not for advocates as well as regional residents who believed in our vision, so I hope they will join us in celebrating what will be a new as well as essential chapter in the history of Fulham as well as Craven Cottage. While there are as well numerous people to thank, nobody who assisted to play a function in this process to date will ever be forgotten.
Fulham Football Club CEO, Alistair Mackintosh, added:
We are all pleased with the result of the decision this evening. Craven Cottage has been the house of Fulham Football Club because 1896 as well as it’s amazing news for our supporters, our regional neighborhood as well as everybody connected with the Club.
Subject to satisfying the required conditions, we are thrilled that plans to redevelop the Riverside Stand may proceed as well as enhance facilities offered throughout the year, assisting to provide our Chairman’s long-lasting vision of offering a world-class location whilst safeguarding the Club’s future at Craven Cottage.
We are grateful for the support, ideas, energy as well as motivation of our Chairman, Mr Shahid Khan, in improving the style as well as bringing it to this point. say thanks to you likewise to the Fulham Supporters’ count on for their support as well as all the advocates as well as personnel who have commented on, offered concepts for, as well as backed the plan in addition to the excellent work by everybody included with the project.
Nicholas Reynolds, populated senior primary as well as job lead, said:
Fulham FC, in addition to the Fulham Supporters’ count on as well as the larger regional community, has been a amazing group to work Camiseta Villarreal CF with, enabling populated to style a new Riverside Stand that will be a excellent neighbour as well as an incredible location to view football.
The new stand combines a spectacular perspective for Fulham fans with new experiences, including restaurants, cafés, bars as well as pop-ups that will make the most of Craven Cottage’s fantastic riverside location.
Images, courtesy: FFC/Populous
Revised Application
The revised application, which has now got full planning Permission, includes:
1. The redevelopment as well as growth of the present Riverside Stand to boost its capability from 4,689 to 8,650, enhancing the general capability of Craven Cottage to c.29,600 seats
2. development of a new public riverside walk
3. new restaurants, cafés, bars, business hospitality as well as event area at ground floor to fourth floor
4. new river wall
5. Basement to offer ‘back of house’ facilities, club as well as lounge area
6. nine serviced apartments; aerial photograph showing application site limit (see application drawings for accurate boundary)
7. removal of four floodlight masts on the west as well as east sides of the Stadium, to be replaced by illumination under the new Camiseta Chelsea FC roofing system of the Riverside Stand, Putney Stand as well as Hammersmith Stand as well as two new floodlight masts on the east side
8. minor works to the rear of the Hammersmith Stand as well as reconfiguration of the west end of the Putney Stand
9. arrangement of new entrance as well as exit arrangements
10. works to the south-west corner of Bishops Park
11. short-term building of a platform in the River Thames as well as contractor’s compound in Bishops Park
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