A MULTI-MILLION pound bid to deliver a new Kop stand at Wrexham AFC’s Racecourse Ground looks set to move forward. Wrexham Council has prepared an application for up to £20m from the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund, which supports regeneration and transport projects. The local authority said the money would be used to pay for plans to transform Mold Road, which is one of the main routes into the town. Around £25m has already been set aside by the Welsh Government to create a transport hub at Wrexham General railway station. A further amount is now being sought from Westminster to allow the 5,000-seat stand to be built at the Kop end of the National League side’s ground, along with a four-star hotel and multi-storey car park nearby.
Wrexham’s Racecourse stadium could finally see a new stand and associated redevelopment if a UK Government Levelling Up Fund bid gets accepted. Wrexham Council’s Executive Board are set to rubber stamp a submission of two applications to the UK Government’s “Levelling Up Fund“, which are based around the Wrexham Gateway project and developments in and […]