Portsmouth FC unveils Herzog & de Meuron stadium plans

Pompey's stunning plans include 36,000 seat stadium and 750 apartments in £600m development

Portsmouth Football club and Sellar Properties have today unveiled ambitious plans for a £600m development in Portsmouth.

Designed
by Olympic stadium architects Herzog & de Meuron, a new football
stadium will seat 36,000 people. The Waterfront Quarter scheme will
also include more than 1m sq ft of residential on a 13-acre reclaimed
land site adjacent to the city’s dockyards, as well as a 1.5 acre
public space.

As
part of the plans, the club’s previous stadium site at Fratton Park
will also be redeveloped once the new stadium is completed. Make
Architects has been commissioned to draw up designs for 750 new
apartments on the site.

Planning applications for the proposed
development will be submitted in the autumn. Subject to consent,
reclamation work could get underway by 2008, and construction of the
stadium the following year.