Plans In for 4,000-Capacity Leamington FC Stadium and 85 Flats in Warwick

Plans for a 4,000-capacity community football stadium and up to 85 flats on land off Fusiliers Way in Warwick are now with Warwick District Council, and people have until 27 November to comment. The stadium would become the new home of Leamington FC, as Warwick Nub News first reported. The application, W/26/1526, was received on 19 October and validated on 2 November.

What the stadium would look like

The planning statement describes four stands holding 1,000 seated and 3,000 standing. The main East Stand has two storeys and the seats. The other three are for standing: 850 in the north, 1,150 in the south and 1,000 in the west.

• Pitch: a full-size artificial surface, with a 25-metre floodlight mast at each corner.
• Ground floor of the East Stand: changing rooms for teams and the community, a first aid centre, a shop, a multi-faith room and a café and supporters’ bar.
• First floor: two conference rooms, two academy classrooms, a director’s room and a kitchen.
• Getting there: vehicles would come in off Fusiliers Way and from roads not yet built on developments to the north and south. Parking would be mainly to the north and west, and a new footpath would link to Warwick Technology Park.

The flats

The flats are only at outline stage, because the statement says no developer has been chosen for that part yet. It shows a five-storey north block of 60 flats and a three-storey south block of 25, with commercial space on the ground floors. That comes to 46 one-bedroom and 39 two-bedroom homes. Nub News reports that 40% would be affordable. All the existing buildings on the site would be demolished.

How it got here

According to Nub News, a new ground for the club has been a council ambition since 2014. The council bought land near Fusiliers Way in 2018, and the plans stalled in 2022 when a procurement exercise found the project couldn’t be done within budget. Its cabinet later accepted the club’s case and funded work towards a detailed design. The running track at Edmondscote would also move here, under a separate application, Nub says.

What happens next

You can read the 111 documents and comment on the council’s planning site, quoting W/26/1526. The file gives 27 November as the last day of the consultation and 1 February 2027 as the council’s target date for a decision. No committee date is set. We’ve read the proposals section of the planning statement, but not yet the transport assessment, and we’ll come back to what it says about match-day traffic. More local plans are on our planning page.

Alex Harrington