8. These are external links and will open in a new window A message from Joseph Mills. Forest Green Rovers wooden football stadium: MP backs call-in request . Critics say the venue is not part of the local plan and the club's current home in Nailsworth will suffer economically.However, club chairman Dale Vince said: "I think it's the right decision. "In the parkland we're going to plant 500 trees and 1,500 km of hedge, so it's going to be a green location," he added.The planning application states the venue will be "low carbon and low impact, with measures introduced to minimise energy use, water, waste and pollution". Forest Green Rovers stadium plan recommended for approval . Forest Green Rovers wooden football stadium: MP backs call-in request Forest Green Rovers stadium plan recommended for approval Forest Green Rovers 'Eco Park' stadium designers invited These are external links and will open in a new window "He said he was also worried about the impact the new stadium could have on neighbouring William Morris House - a residential special needs children's home. Forest Green Rovers Football Club is a professional football club based in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England. Find out about Forest Green Rovers' plans to build a new Eco Park, which we hope will be the greenest football stadium in the world. Forest Green Rovers stadium plan recommended for approval . English football club Forest Green Rovers has proposed to build a stadium made almost entirely out of timber. 5 June 2019. 7. ... We’ve put in a planning application for a new stadium called Eco Park – and if we get permission to build it, it’s going to be something pretty special in world football. Stroud District Council approved the outline plans for the stadium.The club's chairman, Dale Vince, said the decision not to hold a planning inquiry was "great news".He said: "We are pleased we have cleared this hurdle. These are external links and will open in a new windowPlans to build an "iconic" wooden football stadium are set to go ahead after the government backed the decision to grant planning consent.The decision to allow a new stadium for Forest Green Rovers, made in December 2019, will not be "called-in" for further investigation. “This is an outline planning application. Find out about Forest Green Rovers' plans to build a new Eco Park, which we hope will be the greenest football stadium in the world. Forest Green Rovers plan to build the wooden stadium next to junction 13 of the M5 Competing in various local league competitions for much of the 20th century, they won a The best case [for the stadium opening] is three years if we started tomorrow.”The club’s main sponsor, Ecotricity, explains in detail Forest Green Rovers already has a strong commitment to environmentalism and sustainability, and in 2017 was officially recognised at the world’s first vegan football club.“FGR became the world’s first vegan football club because of the huge environmental and animal welfare impacts of livestock farming, as well as to improve player performance,” reads the relevant page "It would be made entirely of wood, maybe they look like ribs of a prehistoric animal but it's also slightly flying saucer like," Mr Vince added.The Nailsworth stadium, which opened in 2006, will be demolished and replaced with about 80 zero-carbon affordable homes.Councillors on the committee voted in favour of the new development, with six for and four against.The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sitesMany of the 160,000 Britons in France face a scramble to return before 04:00 BST on Saturday.

Stroud District Council's development control committee backed the eco-stadium … Mr Vince said the earliest possible opportunity for a match there would be "three years from now".The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sitesMany of the 160,000 Britons in France face a scramble to return before 04:00 BST on Saturday. Forest Green Rovers was named the "greenest football club in the world" last year. The new stadium will be made entirely from wood Forest Green Rovers granted planning permission for all-wooden stadium Club say it will be ‘greenest football stadium in the world’ League Two side are world’s first 100% vegan club 5 June 2019. "It was a battle nobody needed to have; neither us nor the council needed to go to a public inquiry over this "This is the first and biggest hurdle cleared - we've got now outline planning permission. Forest Green Rovers can start plans for their new wooden football stadium after an attempt to call in the Government for a review of the development was rejected. The world’s first football stadium made almost entirely out of wood, which will be home to League Two side An original proposal was rejected by Stroud District Council in June this year, before revised plans were passed by a majority of six to four earlier this month.The new venue is described as a “state-of-the-art wooden stadium on Junction 13 of the M5, along with landscaped parking and two pitches, one of which will be a 4G playing surface, with access for the local community.”“It’s still going to take several years - I think it’s going to take us a year of detailed design work,” Vince added. 9. Das Forest Green Rovers Stadion soll fast ausschließlich aus Holz und anderen umweltfreundlichen Materialien gebaut werden und gehört somit zu den grünsten Stadien der Welt. The winning design for the proposed stadium, from architect Zaha Hadid, was announced in 2016. The appeal against this decision is due to be heard in February.In the meantime, Eastington Parish Council has applied for a "call-in" to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, over the approval of the new planning application which went before councillors on Wednesday.Cllr Haydn Jones, who voted to refuse the application on Wednesday evening, said: "I'm concerned about the impact it will have not only on Nailsworth, which they will be leaving, but also especially on the people in Eastington and Westend and the new development at Greater Aldbury.