Tottenham Hotspur have been granted permission to hold up to 30 non-football events at their stadium per calendar year.
The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium had previously been restricted to 16 such events each year but the cap was lifted to 30 following a meeting of Haringey Council’s planning committee on Thursday evening.
In recent years Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has hosted music concerts, NFL, boxing and rugby, establishing the stadium as one of London’s most popular event destinations.
Under the new rules, subject to a S106 agreement, Tottenham can almost double the number of these events, while the restriction on the number of concerts has also been lifted. But there will be a cap on the number of boxing events per year (two), the number of consecutive events in a row (four) and the number of events in any week (five). There can only be two weeks every year when there are either four consecutive events or five events in any week.
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There will also be a ‘review mechanism’ in place, whereby a review will take place at the end of October 2025. This will allow local residents and businesses to feed back to the council their experiences of the increased number of non-football events in 2025, on topics including anti-social behaviour and noise impacts. In theory the number of non-football events could be revised down, but never below a minimum of 20.
Tottenham will also continue their community ticket scheme, with a minimum of 100 free tickets for each event, and a 24-hour ticket priority window for local residents (defined as those living in the London postcodes N15, N17 and N18).
The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was given official status at the home of last season as the ‘Home of the NFL in the UK’, and the high-profile NFL games, generally taking place during the international breaks of the football season, have been the highest profile non-football events held at the new stadium.
Last summer the stadium hosted five nights of Beyonce’s ‘Renaissance’ world tour, across which almost 240,000 fans came to watch. Industry estimates on how much Tottenham made from the concerts are as high as £15m ($19m) but the club say the final figure after costs was £5m ($6m).
Tottenham opened their new stadium in April 2019 and work on the site is not yet finished. In March plans for a new 30-storey hotel next to the stadium were approved by the Greater London Authority. The project, which was approved by Haringey Council in December 2023, is scheduled to be ready in time for the European Championship in 2028, when the stadium will host games.
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