First match The second application was given outline planning permission in December. On Wednesday, Stroud … Our next step is to build what we believe will be the greenest football stadium in the world.We’ve put in a planning application for a new stadium called Eco Park – and if we get permission to build it, it’s going to be something pretty special in world football.We’ve done a huge amount to showcase sustainable initiatives at our current ground, The New Lawn, but Eco Park will take our sustainable thinking to a new level entirely.You can see all the information for our current planning application on the ​​​​​​​The New Lawn, Another Way, Nailsworth GL6 0FG © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. League Two club Forest Green Rovers' new ground would ... Parish Council also noted the stadium application was only considering 5,000 ... of the proposed Forest Green Rovers stadium. Find out about Forest Green Rovers' plans to build a new Eco Park, which we hope will be the greenest football stadium in the world. Forest Green Rovers’ ‘Eco Park’, the world’s first football stadium made entirely out of wood, has been granted planning permission Councillors have approved plans for Forest Green Rovers to build a new football stadium and leave Nailsworth. The world’s first football stadium made almost entirely out of wood, which will be home to League Two side An original proposal was rejected by Stroud District Council in June this year, before revised plans were passed by a majority of six to four earlier this month.The new venue is described as a “state-of-the-art wooden stadium on Junction 13 of the M5, along with landscaped parking and two pitches, one of which will be a 4G playing surface, with access for the local community.”“It’s still going to take several years - I think it’s going to take us a year of detailed design work,” Vince added. One half of the park was planned to feature sporting facilities, including the stadium , training pitches, multidisciplinary facilities and a sports science hub.

The best case [for the stadium opening] is three years if we started tomorrow.”The club’s main sponsor, Ecotricity, explains in detail Forest Green Rovers already has a strong commitment to environmentalism and sustainability, and in 2017 was officially recognised at the world’s first vegan football club.“FGR became the world’s first vegan football club because of the huge environmental and animal welfare impacts of livestock farming, as well as to improve player performance,” reads the relevant page

All rights reserved. The League Two club were granted planning permission after a second bid was accepted last month, but they had an appeal due on February 18 after their first application was refused in June last year.

Forest Green Rovers then submitted a modified application and appealed against the original decision. ... We’ve put in a planning application for a new stadium called Eco Park ... You can see all the information for our current planning application … Forest Green Rovers’ Eco Park master plan The original development plan aimed to retain the existing meadow landscape of the 100-acre site and develop complementary facilities. Forest Green Rovers FC has been given planning consent for a new wooden stadium despite concerns over its impact. “This is an outline planning application.

AN appeal against the refusal of the first application to grant Forest Green Rovers planning permission for their new Eco Park stadium has been cancelled. There’s a lot more we want to do to put sustainability on the map for the world of sport. The new stadium would have an initial capacity of 5,000, however it will be designed to allow an increase to 10,000 in future. The outline planning application for Eco Park has now been submitted to Stroud District Council, which includes the proposed new stadium for Forest Green Rovers.