PWA wins consent for stadium plans

A Lancashire-based planning consultancy has helped secure planning approval to create a 12,000 all-seater stadium for Scunthorpe United as part of a £1.2bn development known as Lincolnshire Lakes.

The mixed-use development also includes a 94 bedroom hotel, gymnasium, outdoor training football pitch, office space, new site access roads, car parking and associated infrastructure and landscaping.

PWA has been working with a number of parties, including Highways England and the Environment Agency, to address these concerns and the scheme has now been approved by North Lincolnshire Council.

“It demonstrates our ability to manage technically challenging planning applications for large schemes where issues such as Environmental Impact Assessment, archaeological surveys, major highways issues and flood risk have to be addressed.”

The stadium is part of wider plans for a business park, sports lake, leisure facilities and more than 6,000 homes in five new villages on the Lincolnshire Lakes development which is being led by developer Lucent.

Council leader Baroness Liz Redfern said: “The new football stadium will act as a catalyst for the whole of the Lincolnshire Lakes project and will set the scene for further development at this site.

Scunthorpe United chairman, Peter Swann, said: “I am delighted to be at this stage and the continued work and help by the council, in getting to this point, has been invaluable. “We are at the beginning of a hugely exciting period for Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire, one which will help to define the area and provide some of the finest football and sports facilities in the country.”