Nottingham Forest have been granted planning permission to expand The City Ground to a capacity of around 45,000 supporters.
However today, Rushcliffe Borough Council met for a meeting that started at 6pm to discuss Nottingham Forest’s ambitious stadium expansion plans. The meeting concluded with an overall result of the plans being approved by members of the Council/councillors subject to meeting the requirements in the application subject to section 106.
In this meeting the following key benefits were raised:
The construction investment is £550m over three years,
The City Ground expansion will be expected to generate £63.6m per year.
The expansion will create 910 FTE jobs on site.
History behind the expansion plans
The idea of an expansion of the City Ground came around in 2019 but did not get to a pushed start until promotion to the Premier League in May 2022.
Nottingham Forest promotion on Sunday 29th May 2022 following a 1-0 win against Huddersfield Town. (Photo by Jon Hobley/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
It was then in June 2025 where planning permission was granted to demolish the existing Peter Taylor Stand which would eventually take the current capacity from 30,000 to around 35,000 supporters.
However, it was later on in that year, more specifically December 2025, where the club submitted a much larger plan for the expansion which would consist of the following new additions:
Demolishing the Peter Taylor Stand and filling in the corners that separates the Peter Taylor Stand, the iconic Trent End and The Brian Clough Stand which would take the capacity up to 45,000 fans,
The Peter Taylor Stand will receive a full makeover with features such as; new hospitality suites, new media facilities as well as a planned restaurant,
A demolition of the existing club shop on Pavillion Road.
Nottingham Forest club shop in August 14, 2022 ahead of Forest’s 1-0 win against West Ham United. The shop also advertising the plans for the City Ground expansion at the time in the shop window (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)
A demolition of the Champion Centre and associated buildings nearby,
The Nottingham Rowing Club’s Britannia Boathouse and the Sims Boathouse building will both be demolished,
A new plaza is planned to be constructed to allow pedestrian access from Pavillion Road to Trentside North,
Six residential properties on Rosebery Avenue & Colwick Road will be demolished,
The Peter Taylor Stand’s car park to be reduced in overall capacity from one-hundred-and-three to just nine spaces.
The last Renovation
Minor renovations have occurred at the City Ground throughout the years of Evangelos Marinakis’s ownership but majorly prior to the 2024/2025 football season where new additions such as safe standing was added to certain areas of the stadium like P-Block in The Brian Clough Stand. Also added in this short renovation was a new TV Screen at the Trent End.
However, in terms of the latest stand to be constructed was the Trent End throughout the years of 1994-1996 in preparation for the Euro 96 international tournament.
The European Championship in June 1996 at The City Ground, fixture being; Portugal v Turkey (Photo by Bob Thomas Sports Photography via Getty Images)
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