Green light for £105m FA site
The Football Association has given the go-ahead for a £105m National Football Centre to be built in Burton. Its board gave the green light for the St George's Park project with work set to start in January.
Chairman of the National Football Centre board David Sheepshanks said: "St George's Park will be a world-class facility providing top-class education for future generations of English football coaches.
"It will also be an internationally-leading sports medicine and performance research centre; a training home to enhance international team development and an inspirational hub for everyone involved in football from the grassroots to elite.
"Today's decision means that we can open in 2012 and help to deliver the first exciting legacy of a golden summer for sport in this country. St George's Park will be accessible to all, aspirational, educational, sustainable and iconic - a truly national centre for our national game, in the heart of England."
Building work on the centre is due to be completed in the summer of 2012.
