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New Arsenal Stadium Clears Final Hurdle

LONDON-The North London football club Arsenal has been given the go-ahead by the government for its controversial plan to build a new 60,000-seat stadium at Ashburton Grove in Islington, north London.

By Graham Parker | Updated on February 21, 2002

LONDON-Beleaguered Secretary of State at the DTLR Stephen Byers will at least have a few supporters in north London following his decision not to intervene in Arsenal Football Club’s controversial plans to build a new 60,000-seat stadium at Ashburton Grove in Islington.

Byers announced that he will not call in Arsenal’s planning application to a public inquiry, meaning that construction work will begin this Spring. The new stadium should be open in time for the start of the 2004/5 season.

Byers said: ‘My general approach is not to interfere with the jurisdiction of local planning authorities unless it is necessary to do so. After careful consideration of all the matters about the applications and having regard to my policy on call in, I have reached the conclusion that there is not sufficient conflict in this case with national planning policies or any other sufficient reason to warrant calling in the applications’.

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