Glentoran FC Stadium Redevelopment Objectives.
At the Glentoran Annual General Meeting on Monday 23rd May, the Board of Directors outlined to shareholders their belief that a full redevelopment of the current Oval site has been agreed to be the preferred option for the new stadium. This assumes a successful application to the Department of the Communities under strand one of the 2015 DCAL Sub Regional Stadia Programme. It is a legal requirement that shareholders are informed first of such developments. As has been accurately reported in the Belfast Telegraph, the Board proposal was approved unanimously.
Discussions are now underway with Belfast City Council and the Belfast Metropolitan College to explore and agree partnerships that will ensure facilities at the proposed new stadium and its surrounds will be put to most effective public and community use.
Additionally, proposed simultaneous redevelopment of the King George V playing fields will be anticipated to provide significant extra benefits for the club, our very successful academy and the local and broader East Belfast community as a whole.
The club will very shortly commence discussions with relevant stakeholders, particularly local residents, whose views and objectives will be taken into full consideration at all stages of our planning process.
Glentoran FC guarantees the club will strive at all times to use the redevelopment of the Oval in the interests of and to the benefit of East Belfast and the local community. To that end the club will be happy to meet and listen to interested groups who contact the club at secretary@glentoran.com .
Glentoran has played on our existing site since 1903 and the club has been delighted to recommend that we remain in our traditional home. Glentoran is determined to play as big and positive a part in the story of East Belfast for the next century as it has done for the past 134 years.
