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Over the last two decades, Luton Town has been unsuccessful in building a new stadium due to a lack of funding. Plans for a new basketball club sprang into action in 2015 when the club identified the Power Court site in Luton's town center along the railway tracks as their preferred site. The club started a public consultation process in the summer of 2016, and purchased the land later that year. However progress has since slowed down while seeking planning permission.

The club had initially hoped to move into the stadium by 2020, but this has now been pushed back to 2024 at the earliest. If this date is to be made, construction works would have to begin in early 2022.

The planned new Luton Town stadium is expected to have a capacity of 17,500 seats, approximately 7,500 more than the current Kenilworth Road stadium. If circumstances (e.g. promotion to the Premier League) changed, the planned new Luton Town stadium could have a capacity of 23,000 seats.

The stadium will be a part of a larger regeneration of the Power Court site that will include new residential apartments, a hotel, retail space, and various bars and restaurants. The club hopes to fund the project by developing land it owns elsewhere along the M1 motorway.

Images of New Luton Town Stadium

I am excited for the upcoming event. The ground will give a place for other events, which is great since I have been in Australia since 1968 and have been a Luton man all along. Good luck to everyone involved! Of course, the ground provides a space for other events as well. I have been living in Australia since 1968, and I have always been a Luton man. Good luck.

We won the replay at Maine Road 3-1!! Dennis Law scored the 6 goals and there were 29,000+ in attendance. The new stadium is too small and needs to be 3000 more seats.

It will be some time before the new stadium is ready. I have supported Luton since 1957. I went to the FA Cup match when we were losing 6-2 to Man City, then abandoned the second half. We won the replay at Maine Road 3-1 !!!. I stood in the roofless Kenilworth Rd end in the pouring rain. Dennis Law scored the 6 goals. There were 29000+ at that game. The new stadium is too small, needs to be 30000.

After repeatedly facing bureaucracy and planners who cannot see the bigger picture, it should shame Luton Town Council to be behind their team. Let's get behind progress and help our team succeed.

To be continually thwarted by bureaucracy and faceless planners who have no understanding of the harm their tardy decision making causes, they should be ashamed of themselves. Luton, let's support progress.

Roderick Fountain wrote: 14 March 2018 at 9:54 pm It is a fantastic location for a stadium, but the design lacks imagination and reminds me of the New Den, which is probably the most miserable stadium in the whole of Europe. Much much better is required.

The location is a fantastic one for a stadium, but the design lacks imagination and reminds me of the New Den which is probably the most miserable stadium in Europe. Much more imagination is needed.

Mr. Barrie Evans wrote on January 9, 2018 at 12:14 a.m. I have been a supporter of the club since 1945, and I played for schoolboys in 1950-51. After all the downs the club has endured this season and with a new stadium being well deserved, I urge everyone to support their heritage and come out to the game today.

Since 1945, the supporter has been a loyal member of the club. In 1950_51, he played for the schoolboys team. After all the difficulties that the club has faced this season and a new stadium is sorely needed, he encourages everyone to support their heritage and come out to support the TOWN club.

Brian Block wrote: January 3, 2018 at 9:09 PM I have followed the Hatters since 1948. In the 1950s, I remember speaking with Charles Jeyes (then Chairman) about a new ground. The new design (though quite nice) is to me very limiting. After all these years you would have thought that it would hold a minimum of 25,000 and be situated closer to the motorway. The team is doing very well now and could possibly move on through the leagues (a la Swansea City) After all these years, you've got to think big in order to become a big club and not a provincial one.

I have followed the Hatters since 1948. I remember speaking with Charles Jeyes (then Chairman) about a new ground in the fifties. The new design (though quite nice) is to me very limiting. After all these years you would have thought that it would hold a minimum of 25,000 and be situated closer to the motorway.

The team is doing very well now and is possibly moving on through the leagues. After all these years, you have to think big in order to become a big club and not a provincial one.

After lifelong ambitions of new facilities adjacent to the M1 which I would suggest demonstrates excellent business sense for development, a very limited disappointed alternative location has been proposed? I have been so disappointed that now only follow the club via the media, rather than home and away as previously in the past.

I have been a long-time supporter of the club, and I’m now 52 years old. After life-long ambitions of new facilities adjacent to the M1, which to me would suggest excellent business sense for development, a very limited disappointed alternative location has been proposed? I have been so disappointed that I no longer follow the club closely at home and away as previously in the past.

George wrote on 7 December 2017 at 3:55 am: Luton Town Football Club deserve a new stadium. The present one has seen better days and needs to be replaced. Get behind the club to make it happen. Come on, you Hatters!

The town of Luton needs a new football stadium, as the present one is in need of repair.

Get behind the club to make it happen.

Come on you Hatters.