Development of stadiums in English football This achieved a 34,000 all-seater capacity which had been given the go-ahead in July 1990. The current capacity of just under 42,000 was reached in 2001. In November 2015, Chelsea Football Club announced that they have submitted plans to the Local Authority to build a new 60,000 seater stadium on the Stamford Bridge site, which would match the current capacity of Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and only be surpassed by Old Trafford, and Tottenham's new stadium in the Premier League. In January 2011, Crystal Palace announced plans to move from their run-down Selhurst Park home to return to the Crystal Palace
Selhurst Park having decamped to the newly established AFC Wimbledon in protest, when the old club were given permission by the FA to move in 2002. Palace chairman Jordan stated that he had completed a purchase of the freehold of Selhurst Park from Altonwood Limited (Ron Noades' company) for £12m in October 2006. However, Simon Jordan never owned the freehold or had any interest in it and his reasons for claiming he had bought it are unknown. Ownership was in fact held by Selhurst Park Limited, a joint venture between HBOS and the Rock property empire owned by Paul Kemsley, a former