{"id":33472,"date":"2021-06-22T13:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=33472"},"modified":"2021-06-22T13:36:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:36:02","slug":"approval-granted-for-old-trafford-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/approval-granted-for-old-trafford-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Approval granted for Old Trafford expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Old-Trafford210617.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Old-Trafford210617.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Old-Trafford210617.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Old-Trafford210617-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans to create the largest cricket venue outside of London have been approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trafford Council&#8217;s planning committee voted unanimously to approve the building of a new 1,025-seat stand at Lancashire County Cricket Club&#8217;s (LCCC) historic Emirates Old Trafford ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expansion plans will also see the ground&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Residential_and_mixed-use_buildings#Hotels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hotel<\/a> extended and a heritage centre and new club shop built. The club hope work will be completed in time for the 2023 Ashes series. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new stand, which will replace the Red Rose Suite, will increase the ground\u2019s overall capacity to 26,700, making it England&#8217;s third-largest cricket venue, behind Lord&#8217;s and The Oval in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan replaces one previously approved by Trafford Council in 2019, which would have seen\u00a0the capacity increase to 29,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LCCC Chief Executive Daniel Gidney said the plan was part of a decade-long \u00a360M redevelopment of the ground, which is being undertaken so the club could continue to host major competitions, matches and events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to create the largest cricket venue outside of London have been approved. Trafford Council&#8217;s planning committee voted unanimously to approve the building of a new 1,025-seat stand at Lancashire County Cricket Club&#8217;s (LCCC) historic Emirates Old Trafford ground. The expansion plans will also see the ground&#8217;s hotel extended and a heritage centre and new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Old-Trafford210617.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-8HS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33474,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33472\/revisions\/33474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}