Leeds have been handed a big increase to their bold stadium plans.
The newly-promoted membership are aiming to increase Elland Highway to turn out to be ‘one of many greatest stadiums within the nation’.
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Daniel Farke’s aspect sealed their return to the Premier League on Monday night time after Sheffield United did not beat Burnley.
Leeds followers have now been given extra excellent news forward of subsequent season.
At a gathering on Wednesday, Leeds Metropolis Council agreed to dispose the land it owns round Elland Highway.
The transfer is a key step within the membership’s deliberate growth of the 37,792-capacity stadium.
It had been required to ensure that the proposed plans to maneuver ahead and any work be accomplished.
The committee was additionally briefed on additional plans to regenerate the world round Elland Highway, together with new transport hyperlinks.
Planning permission for the redevelopment work cites an eventual capability of as much as 56,000, however it’s understood the quantity will find yourself nearer to 53,000 followers.
This enhance would put Elland Highway into the highest ten greatest soccer stadiums in England.
Following the vote, a spokesperson for Leeds Metropolis Council mentioned: “Leeds Metropolis Council’s government board has simply unanimously agreed the bold regeneration imaginative and prescient to make newly-promoted LUFC’s Elland Highway stadium one of many greatest within the nation.”
Earlier this month, council chief Cllr James Lewis had defined: “Elland Highway and Leeds United are a part of the guts and soul of town, and the membership deserves a stadium befitting of its particular standing and unimaginable followers.
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“Naturally we’re eager to help this nonetheless we are able to, and to work intently with the membership to make sure they’re in the very best place to realize their ambitions and construct an even bigger, brighter future for the membership, their supporters and sport within the metropolis.
“From a wider perspective, the regeneration of the Elland Highway space additionally represents one of many metropolis’s most enjoyable improvement alternatives for a era, which might revitalise an enormous space of Leeds and doubtlessly carry tons of of tens of millions of kilos into our native economic system.”
Leeds have performed at Elland Highway since their formation in 1919 and followers gathered outdoors the venue to have a good time promotion on Monday.
Farke’s aspect had crushed Stoke 6-0 at residence earlier within the day earlier than the Blades’ defeat confirmed promotion.
Since transferring into their residence, Leeds have renovated Elland Highway a number of instances all through their historical past.
The latest redevelopment concluded in 2012, nevertheless it has been 31 years because the venue was expanded.
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That enhance noticed 7,000 seats exchange the terrace within the Don Revie Stand as Elland Highway turned all-seater.
A number of matches had been later hosted by the bottom throughout Euro 1996 in addition to England internationals in 2002 and 2018.