The Croydon Council first granted the planning permit of the club in principle to review the main position seven years ago this Saturday (April 19).
However, despite the early bases from last summer, the main construction has not yet begun.
Originally to complete by 2021, the scheme has been plagued with growing costs, obstacle planning and financing uncertainty.
Recent Bloomberg and The Athletic reports revealed that the project, once it is expected to cost £ 100 million, now it is likely to exclude £ 200 million.
Sources close to the project say that inflation in the prices of construction materials and complicated financing conversations are to blame.
While the president of Palace, Steve Parish, hoped to avoid assuming the complete debt mixing loans with cash of the shareholders, the continuous uncertainty about the participation of the American investor John Textor has added more delays.
Despite the club’s insistence that the project is still alive and that conversations between shareholders are ongoing, fans are frustrating.
With little visible progress, many now question if the expansion will ever happen.
After the reports were published, X, User James wrote: “It would be cheaper and better to find some lands and build a new stage. This is simply ridiculous, all delays.” Another fan, Michael Tulley, added: “The old stand will have fallen before something begins to happen.”
Last summer, Palace moved its temporary offices behind the executive boxes of Whitehors Lane and spent £ 1 million in water tanks to drain a basement flooded in the Holmesdale Road position, but important works have not yet been produced.
The project aims to increase the capacity of the scenario from 25,486 to more than 34,000 and bring other expected improvements to the ground.
The Earth has already bought from neighboring Sainsbury’s, and the club plans to bring down the nearby council floors in Wooedon near space.
However, the next saga between the club, the council and the residents of Wooedon Close further delayed the project.
Although the club and the local authority were able to reassure all the tenants of the Council anyway, the club cannot process with demolition until it has reached an agreement with the last private property house.
The club must also find land in another part of the municipality to build replacement houses, as required by the planning rules.
Together with the land problem, questions about the design of the project are also being asked and how it will affect the rest of the land. The original plan was to build around the main position before demolishing the original 100 -year -old.
However, according to Atlético, a new option that is being considered is completely demolishing the stand first and reconstructing from scratch.
While this could accelerate the project, it would temporarily reduce the stadium capacity and reduce the income of the 6,000 fans currently sitting there.
If the club opts to demolish the main position first, a narrower temporary seat area could be added. However, finding a new space for its profitable hospitality of the Day of the match and the holders of displaced seasonal tickets would raise a significant challenge.
While the club has not yet commented on the current status of the project, he says he is still committed to the plans.
