Tottenham Hotspur have encountered a setback in their £400 million plan to redevelop White Hart Lane that will delay the application by another two months.
Spurs submitted a re-worked proposal to Haringey Council in May that they hoped would alleviate the concerns raised by conservationists about the original proposal presented last October.
the club web side has learned that the revised plan still needs to be amended because of transport issues relating to the building of the supermarket that is crucial to the funding of the project.
The Premier League club were hoping that the scheme would go before the Council’s planning committee this month but sources say it will now have to be rescheduled for one of two dates in September because there are no meetings in August.
It is believed that Spurs have an agreement with Sainsbury’s for the supermarket giant to build an 11,000 square metre megastore on the 20-acre Northumberland Park site.
The supermarket plan includes 401 parking spaces and planning officials are concerned about the amount of traffic on the roads on matchdays. Both parties are working on various amendments, including re-routing the traffic and building a secondary exit on another road.
A Haringey Council planning source close to the Tottenham application told Goal.com UK: “I think it is resolvable but we are still working on various issues. The buses have to be able to keep moving and people have to be able to get in and out of the car park.”
The supermarket, which insiders say will be the biggest in the borough of Haringey, forms Phase 1 of the development and will be one of the first buildings to be completed.
If the development, which includes a 56,250-seat stadium, a 150-bedroom hotel, 200 homes and a supermarket, is approved when it eventually goes before the council, it will not be the end of the planning process.
Before Spurs can start formulating a proposal for development, they will have to overcome a number of other hurdles, including gaining the approval of statutory organisations such as the Mayor of London and the Secretary of State.
Nevertheless, the club hope to start building work next year and have the new ‘silver ring’ stadium ready by the 2013-14 season.
The club, which qualified for the Champions League for the first time in May, believe they have outgrown their current home, which can hold only 36,214 fans. They have another 23,000 on the waiting list for season tickets.
Spurs’ proposal is to build a new stadium to the north of the current site. Two-thirds of the new structure will be built around the current ground while matches continue, before games switch to a pitch in the new, unfinished stadium as work is completed.
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