CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RAMÓN SÁNCHEZ-PIZJUÁN STADIUM APPROVED IN GOVERNMENT SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

The Regional Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment has issued a favourable strategic environmental report on the club's plans for the urban transformation of the new Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán stadium in the Nervión district, where the club envisages that the new stadium will host continuous activity 365 days a year.

The strategic environmental report, issued on 20 March, details that ‘the objective of the urban transformation action to extend the current footprint of the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium, will result in the immediate improvement of the urban environment. Simultaneously, it will make possible the construction of a new, more modern stadium that will become an international benchmark'.

The document concerns the construction of a new first-class stadium for a capacity of 55,000 spectators. The expansion will allow some 20,000 spectators 'access to the stands without climbing any stairs and increased space for people with reduced mobility', as well as the introduction of services that allow continuous activity 365 days a year, increasing the range of services available in the neighbourhood and the surrounding area.

The report outlines the approach which ‘best meets the interests of the city, since it achieves, in a more balanced way, the possibility of enlarging the stadium, improving the surrounding space, especially the land currently classified as green area located on the south side, but which is not really used according to its destination and which is in a neglected state; and minimising the effects on the surrounding dwellings’.

With all this, the document notes ‘the reduction of the green area located in the South square facing Calle de Eduardo Dato, where a renewed and improved public space will be created, whose main beneficiaries will be the local residents’.