The Hive Stadium
The Hive after a 5-0 win by Barnet in March 2015
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| Location | Canons Park, London |
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| Coordinates | 51°36′09″N 0°17′30″W / 51.602599°N 0.291785°WCoordinates: 51°36′09″N 0°17′30″W / 51.602599°N 0.291785°W |
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 Canons Park
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| Owner | Barnet F.C. |
| Operator | Barnet F.C. |
| Capacity | 6,418 (5,318 seated) capped at 5,176 |
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| Broke ground | 2003 |
| Opened | July 2013 |
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Barnet F.C. (2013–) London Broncos (2014–15) London Bees (2014–) |
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The Hive Stadium is a 5,176 (official) capacity stadium in Canons Park, in the London Borough of Harrow on the former site of the Prince Edward Playing Fields. The stadium is home to Football League Two football club Barnet and London Bees of the FA WSL.
The record attendance at the stadium is 5,233 supporters (57 above official capacity at the time, as terrace capacity restriction was relaxed for this game), for Barnet F.C.'s home game against Gateshead on 25 April 2015, when Barnet won promotion to League Two with a 2-0 win.
Barnet F.C. Chairman Anthony Kleanthous had sought to move the club from Underhill Stadium since the 1990s due to the poor facilities at the ground. Attempts to move either to Barnet Copthall or to the greenbelt site directly to the south of Underhill were both unsuccessful, with John Prescott over-ruling a move to Copthall in 2001 after planning permission was granted.
Construction of the stadium, at the Prince Edward Playing Fields in Canons Park, began in 2003 as a new home for Wealdstone F.C.. In 2004, Wealdstone's investment partners in the project went into liquidation, bringing construction work at the site to a halt. Harrow London Borough Council put the site up for tender in 2006, and Barnet F.C. won the right to occupy the site as a result of this.
Barnet F.C. moved into the stadium in summer 2013 due to disagreement with Barnet London Borough Council with regards to the lease of the land surrounding their home since 1907, Underhill Stadium, as well as the limited facilities at Underhill restricting the club's income. The awarding of the Barnet Copthall site to Saracens F.C., effectively ending Barnet F.C.'s hopes of ever moving to the site, accelerated the move to the Hive further. The club originally claimed they intended the use of the stadium at the Hive to be a temporary arrangement, with the long term aim to build a 10,000 capacity stadium in the London Borough of Barnet, however that changed in 2015 with the chairman announcing the club will no longer look for a home elsewhere. There is a restriction on the lease of the Hive that prevents its use for football league matches and Barnet F.C. have been granted a 10-year change to this condition which came into effect in June 2015 as part of the club's requirements for promotion.
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