Ambers get the green light

Hundreds of homes and a spectacular new football stadium will soon lay at the heart of a long-awaited new sports village at Cheshunt Football Club in the Hertfordshire-based town Cheshunt.

After an eight-year battle for planning permission, the green light was finally given in September 2021 for Cheshunt Sports Village when the council’s refusal was overturned in a public inquiry.

The sports village will home Cheshunt FC with a newly built 2,000-capacity stadium, which has been designed to accommodate 5,000 spectators in the future to safeguard the club for the Football League. Alongside the new stadium, Cheshunt Sports Village will include 163 new homes and a range of new community, leisure, and business facilities. The plans will see a major redevelopment of the club’s current Theobalds Lane site, which will safeguard the club’s future and offer new facilities for the wider community.

Director of LW Developments Dean Williamson, who is responsible for the scheme, is also Chairman of the football club. He explained:

“I’m absolutely delighted that planning permission has been granted for Cheshunt Sports Village.

It’s a significant milestone in the club’s long history and marks a significant step forward in bringing our vision to reality for what will be a vibrant community, leisure and business hub for the local area and the Borough of Broxbourne as a whole.

The new facilities at Cheshunt Football Club will become a hub of local excellence in sports facilities, education and training, which would greatly enhance participation in sport within the local area.”

The next stage of the development process will see the club seek an agreement with the landowners Broxbourne Council and Hertfordshire County Council to determine how the scheme will be brought forward.

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