What next for St James' Park - a stadium development timescale ⌚ - video Dailymotion

Liam Kennedy looks at what the timescale is for movement on the St James' Park development conundrum.

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00:00Just in case, for whatever reason, you might be watching this in months time, so January 2025.

00:05Yes, in January 2025. So there hadn't been a decision at all made on what was going to happen,

00:09whether it was going to be an expanded St James's Park, which I think is the absolute least likely

00:13of all of the suggestions, and more likely probably some kind of new complex akin with

00:21some of the best stadia that you see in Europe. However, that was said to me it would be

00:29probably 18 months down the line that we're talking about anything tangible really happening.

00:34Now what that means, does that mean spades in the ground? I probably still doubt that,

00:39although there are very ambitious owners, I very much doubt that would be spades in the ground,

00:42because I think the locations that we know they're looking at, they're widely reported,

00:46bring with them lots of organisational challenges, some red tape, things like that. Planning is

00:52needed, there will be objections, there will be problems. So 18 months might be a case of getting

00:57to the point where it's definitively set down on what is going to happen, but that was the date I was given.