Bristol City Stadium
| Ashton Vale | |
Artist's impression of the proposed stadium
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| Coordinates | 51°26′09″N 2°37′45″W / 51.4358°N 2.6293°WCoordinates: 51°26′09″N 2°37′45″W / 51.4358°N 2.6293°W |
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| Owner | Bristol City F.C. |
| Operator | Bristol City F.C. |
| Capacity | 30,000 (option to increase to 42,000). |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Construction cost | £29,000,000 |
| Architect | Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum |
The Bristol City Stadium (tentative name) was a proposed football stadium, announced in November 2007, which would be built on land at Ashton Vale, Bristol, England, and would replace Ashton Gate stadium as the home stadium of Bristol City F.C. Due to legal issues, the club cancelled the project, instead deciding to renovate Ashton Gate.
The stadium is intended to have a capacity of 30,000 spectators. HOK, the architects that designed Wembley Stadium, Cardiff's Millennium Stadium and Arsenal FC's Emirates Stadium, has been retained to design the stadium. As a preliminary part of the planning process, public consulations took place in December 2008 and February 2009.
A survey carried out by Bristol City Supporters Trust reported that 95% of fans supported the move to a new stadium, but that there were concerns about the acoustics of the new stadium and the need for it to have a distinctive "Bristol" feel. In December 2009, the Football Association announced that Bristol would be one of the host cities should England win the 2018 World Cup bid. The England bid, however, was unsuccessful .
In April 2009, Bristol City owner and chairman Steve Lansdown sold a stake of 4.7% in Hargreaves Lansdown for a sum of £47.2million, towards the cost of building the stadium, reducing his stake in the business to 22.9%. Lansdown commented that the residual costs of construction would be paid for by a combination of the sale of: Ashton Gate, debentures, and the naming rights for the new stadium.
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