Nottingham Forest's City Ground redevelopment plans face multiple hurdles, with work unlikely to start until next year. The Premier League club aims to increase the stadium's capacity from 30,500 to 45,000. The project involves a complex process, including approval from Rushcliffe Borough Council and addressing issues related to crowd and traffic management. The club must demonstrate that the additional challenges can be overcome, including car parking and the flow of people out of the stadium once capacity is increased. A traffic management trial is also needed to close some lanes around Trent Bridge after the final whistle of a match. The club is keen to push forward with the ambitious plans, which would eventually see the capacity of their home on the banks of the River Trent increased to 52,000. The club had previously been granted planning permission for a smaller-scale redevelopment that would have increased the capacity of their stadium to 35,000. But a fresh set of proposals were submitted in early January, which would see extensive work undertaken on three of the four stands. The first phase of work would increase capacity to 45,000, before a subsequent redevelopment of the Brian Clough stand would further grow the ground’s capacity again by roughly 7,000. The club had previously intended to simply demolish the Peter Taylor Stand - the oldest and smallest of their four structures - and replace it with a modern version, with Champions League-standard facilities. Among the large number of changes to the package first put together six years ago, the club now intend to make it one of the biggest stands in English football.