Northumberland Development Project
Artist's impression of the Northumberland Development Project
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| Full name | Northumberland Development Project |
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| Location | London, England |
| Coordinates | 51°36′17.1″N 0°03′59.1″W / 51.604750°N 0.066417°W |
| Owner | Tottenham Hotspur F.C. |
| Operator | Tottenham Hotspur F.C. |
| Capacity | 61,000 |
| Field size | 105 x 68 m |
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Grass (Association football games) Artificial turf (American football games) |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 2014 |
| Built | 2015– (incomplete) |
| Opened | 2018 (planned) |
| Construction cost | Estimated at around £750 million |
| Architect | Populous |
| Structural engineer | Buro Happold |
| General contractor | McLaren Construction |
| Main contractors | Mace |
| Tenants | |
| Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (2018–) (planned) | |
The Northumberland Development Project is a project to build a football stadium which will replace White Hart Lane as the home stadium of Tottenham Hotspur. The stadium originally had a planned capacity for 56,250 spectators, which later increased to 61,000. The development plans have been revised several times and currently comprise a combination of 579 new homes, 180 room hotel, local community health centre, "Tottenham Experience" – a Spurs museum and club shop, extreme sports facility and the already complete Lilywhite House, which contains a supermarket, university technical college and new club administration buildings.
Following periods of consultation with the local community, and several rounds of negotiations with Haringey Council and the Mayor of London, planning permissions for the project were issued in September 2011. A compulsory purchase order issued in July 2014 giving approval for the new stadium scheme to proceed was subject to an unsuccessful legal challenge in February 2015. During the long CPO delays, the current new designs were developed and the new planning application was approved for them by Haringey Council on 17 December 2015. The anticipated stadium opening date has been revised several times and is currently scheduled for the 2018–19 season.
The new stadium will also serve as a venue for at least two NFL International Series games a season.
The club stated in 2007 that it was considering options for increasing stadium capacity involving redevelopment of the current site or a move to a new site. It advised in the 2007/8 Interim Financial Statement that the preferred option would be announced in the first half of 2008, but later delayed this decision until the autumn of 2008.
The club had also considered a move to a new site. One possibility for the club was to use the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Olympics. This would have involved a move out of the Tottenham area and the stadium was required to retain a running track, so the club dropped the plan.
In November 2007 Tony Winterbottom, formerly of the London Development Agency, who had worked on development of Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, was reported as leading the development of the options for the new stadium. In April 2008 it was revealed in the press that investigations were taking place into the possible use of the adjacent Wingate industrial estate. If planning permission and the agreement of the current businesses there was granted, a 55–60,000-seat stadium could be constructed on the current White Hart Lane site.
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