The planning committee of the City of York Council has approved York City’s Community Stadium plans in a 11-4 vote. The vote comes as great news for the club, who also secured promotion to the Football League last Sunday by beating Luton Town in a Wembley playoff.
The stadium plans are part of a larger retail development project destined for the Monks Cross area in the north of York. The new stadium will sit at the site of the current York City Knights rugby stadium and will be accompanied by large Marks & Spencer and John Lewis stores.
This latter part of the plans also turned out to be their bottleneck as city centre retail owners complained that these new stores might cost them business.
The city council though, turned out to be unconvinced by their arguments and argued that the additions will provide a huge boost to the local economy and will pull shoppers that now go to Leeds and Sheffield back to York.
York City’s community stadium will have a capacity of 6,000 seats. The club will share the stadium with local rugby club York City Knights.