Rushcliffe Borough Council has said Forest does not need prior planning approval to demolish five vacant homes near the City Ground in West Bridgford. The decision lets Nottingham Forest move ahead with the first stage of enabling works for its proposed stadium redevelopment.
The properties are 27 Rosebery Avenue and 17, 19, 21 and 23 Colwick Road. Planning consultants Savills said the work will remove the buildings, associated outbuildings, boundary treatments and some trees or vegetation, and that the demolition is expected to take around 12 weeks.
West Bridgford demolition works
The club owns all five properties, which were described as vacant in the application. Rushcliffe Borough Council’s decision covers only the demolition works, so it clears one part of the site before any main construction programme can begin. A separate Nottingham Forest and the Sporting Lisbon test report is unrelated, but the same club is now moving on a different front closer to home.
Forest had previously scheduled the demolition to begin on September 1, 2026. The council’s ruling means that date no longer depends on a further planning approval for this specific work, so the demolition step can proceed under the decision already made.
City Ground planning applications
The wider redevelopment of the City Ground is still not approved by this decision. Nottingham Forest’s separate full and outline planning applications remain under consideration by Rushcliffe Borough Council, which means the demolition and the larger stadium plan are being handled on different tracks.
That split matters for anyone watching the project closely: the club can now prepare the site, but the rest of the redevelopment still has to clear the planning process before any full build-out can start. For nearby residents, the immediate change is the start of demolition-related work around the five empty properties, not a final go-ahead for the whole stadium scheme. A separate Roundhill campsite safety report shows how local notices can affect nearby users, but here the immediate issue is the move from paperwork to site preparation.
Rosebery Avenue and Colwick Road
The work is part of the early preparation phase that planners describe as enabling works, covering demolition, utility changes and other site preparation before major construction begins. In practical terms, the council has allowed Forest to remove the five properties first, while the broader stadium redevelopment remains tied to the outstanding applications.
For people living or moving near Rosebery Avenue and Colwick Road in West Bridgford, the key point is that the demolition can now go ahead on its own timetable, and the next planning hurdle sits with the larger City Ground proposal rather than the houses themselves. A separate Pachaug State Forest report is unrelated, but it is the same kind of planning detail that can change how a project moves from idea to work on the ground.
