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 north along the river valleys had been lumbered and farmed, such as at Milne Hollow, but several natural areas remained by the 1950s. The forests of the Don valley had been where Canadian naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton spent much of his youth in the 1870s studying animal life. The Don Valley Parkway was not the first highway planned through the valley. In the 1930s, a "speedway" through the lower valley was promoted as possible depression relief. Unlike today's parkway, this road would have curved northwest near the Don Valley Brick Works and connected to Mount Pleasant at Davisville. The city