Key facts
Club: Luton Town FC | Capacity: 17,500 seats | Scheduled opening: 2024 | Status: proposed
Description
For the last two decades, Luton Town has sought to build a new stadium to replace their current ground, Kenilworth Road, that lacks the facilities of modern-day stadiums, however plans long failed to move forward due to a lack of funding.
Plans became however more concrete in 2015 when the club identified the Power Court site in Luton’s town centre along the railway tracks as their preferred site and started a public consultation process. The club started a formal application process in the summer of 2016, and purchased the land later in the year, however progress has since slowed down while seeking planning permission.
The club had initially hoped to move into the stadium by 2020, but this has now been pushed back to 2024 at the earliest. If this date is to be made, construction works would have to begin in early 2022 the latest.
The planned new Luton Town stadium is set to have a capacity of 17,500 seats, roughly 7,500 more than Kenilworth Road stadium, which could be changed to 23,000 along the way if circumstances (e.g. promotion to the Premier League) changed.
The stadium will be part of a larger regeneration of the Power Court site that will include new residential apartments, a hotel, retail space, and various bars and restaurants. The club hopes to fund the project by developing land it owns elsewhere along the M1 motorway.
Images of New Luton Town Stadium
8 comments
I have been a Luton supporter since 1952 and have some great memories of great players from Luton and visiting sides if I am correct the capacity of Kenilworth road was then 30.000 of course standing was around then , the new ground will hold 17.500 if we did get promotion to the Premier league would the ground be big enough and generate enough income required is there room for expansion ,of course if we do not do so well will the ground be too big. Of course the ground also gives a place for other events. I have been in Australia since 1968 and have been a Luton man all along. Good luck.
It will be sometime before the new stadium will be ready. I have supported Luton since 1957. Went to the FA cup match when we were losing 6-2 to Man City, then abandoned 2nd half. We won the replay at Maine Road 3-1 !!!. Stood in the roofless Kenilworth Rd end in the pouring rain. Dennis Law scored the 6 goals. There were 29000+ at that game. The new stadium is too small, needs to be 30000.
My Grandfather, Father and sons have all been keen Hatters fans and supporters. For as long as I can remember the talk, other than how the team are performing, has been a new ground.
It is important for an enterprise to move with the times and develop and as the Hatters gain momentum as a team so should the facilities.
To be continually thwarted by bureaucracy and faceless planners who have no commercial concept of the damage their tardy decision making has, should be ashamed of themselves.
Come on Luton, get behind your team and support progress.
It is a fantastic location for a stadium, but the design lacks imagination and reminds me of the New Den, which is probably the most miserable stadium in the whole of Europe. Much much better is required.
Supporter since 1945,played for schoolboys 1950_51. After all the downs endured by the club promotion this season and a new stadium is well deserved .Come on the TOWN support your heritage
I have followed the Hatters since 1948. In the fifties, I remember speaking with Charles Jeyes (Then Chairman) about a new ground. The new design (Though quite nice) is to me very limiting. After all these years you would have thought that it would hold a minimum of 25,000 and be situated closer to the motorway.
The team is doing very well now and could possibly move on through the leagues (a la Swansea City) After all these years, you’ve got to think big in order to become a big club and not a provincial one.
I have been a life long supporter of the club and I am now of the age 52 years old .
After life long ambitions of new facilities adjacent to the M1 which to me would suggest excellent business sense for development . A very limited disappointed alternative location has been proposed ?
I have been so disappointed I now only follow the club via the media not home and away as previously in the past .
Luton Town Football Club deserve a new stadium, the present one has seen better days.
Get behind the club to make it happen.
Come on you Hatters.