Development of stadiums in English football Reading in the top flight (although promotion was not achieved until 2006), so the decision to build a new stadium was made. In 2008 Rotherham United expressed dissatisfaction with their Millmoor home and began to look into the construction of a new stadium in the town. At the start of the 2008–09 season Rotherham United temporarily moved to the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield due to ownership disputes over Millmoor. The Football League told the club that they must return to Rotherham by 2012 which they have done. The club moved to the 12,000-capacity New York Stadium, which opened in
Don Valley Parkway as Charles Sauriol founded the Don Valley Conservation Association, in 1948 to assist the provincial Don Valley Conservation Authority (DVCA) itself founded in 1946. The Association promoted conservation of the valley with rail tours and public events. In 1951, the Ontario Department of Planning and Development released its "Don Valley Conservation Report", which recommended the preservation of the valley, including an artificial reservoir where Lawrence Avenue crossed the Don River. It also proposed that the valley not be used for any new major transportation routes. The DVCA adopted the report and budgeted to buy lands in the valley, but the