English club agrees to sell TWO plots of land on site of iconic stadium with 100 houses set to be built

LAND next to the iconic home of a Premier League club is up for sale.

Two corner plots on Shoreham Street, which runs alongside Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane stadium, have been given approval for 100 homes to be built on them.

Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane is set for some major changes around it

Sheffield United are selling two plots of land on their Bramall Lane site which will become houses

The green light has been given for a four-storey block of 52 studio apartments to be built on an area known as Cutler’s Corner.

Another 45 apartments are set to go above a new Sheffield United shop on the 0.4 acre Boundary Corner site, where Shoreham Street meets Cherry Street.

Hilco Global estate agency are marketing it and say that the price is available on application.

Cutlers Corner is currently used for by Blades supporters leaving the stadium while Boundary Corner is used as additional car parking for the stadium.

The plans for 52 studio apartments on Cutlers Corner were approved in 2013 with the sales brochure saying that, in 2017, Sheffield Council had confirmed that sufficient work was done on the site to implement the permission.

That meant that development had officially commenced.

And the plans for a four-storey building with the 45 apartments above a new shop at the Boundary Corner site also got the go-ahead in 2017.

However, The Star says that work there is “yet to begin it is understood planning permission for that site has elapsed”.

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A press release in March 2020 from the Scarborough Group, whose chairman is ex-Sheffield United chairman Kevin McCabe, said that “discussions are ongoing with Sheffield City Council to increase the density of both these sites” on Boundary Corner and Cutlers Corner.

And then it also stated that McCabe, who lost his ownership battle of the club with Prince Abdullah, had an agreement in principle for Sheffield United to acquire from Scarborough Group the freehold of Bramall Lane Stadium and the adjoining Copthorne Hotel.

On the pitch, Sheffield United secured an impressive 3-1 win at Luton on Saturday to bolster their faint Premier League survival hopes.

But Chris Wilder’s men are still seven points from safety with just 14 games left to go.