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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36748743

The capacity of Nottingham Forest's City Ground has been reduced to zero, 29 days before the new season starts.

Paul McKay, service director for public protection at Nottinghamshire County Council, said the club does not have a required safety certificate holder.

They are due to host Hull in a friendly on 30 July, with their season starting against Burton at home on 6 August.

"We had an audit and we had to make the decision to reduce the capacity to zero," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.

The ground, which was partly redeveloped in the 1980s and 1990s, normally has a capacity of 30,445.

However, due to recent staff changes at the City Ground there was no person nominated as safety certificate holder in time for the initial annual review of the stadium.

"It's unusual," McKay said. "Normally these things would be planned.

"They've had a named person, that person is unable to fulfil those duties at the moment so the club are looking to appoint a new safety certificate holder.

"What I want to assure people is that we are working very closely with Forest. We had a number of meetings with them and we are hoping this might be resolved in the next few days."

Nottingham Forest said they were working with the council to ensure a suitable person will be appointed as the club's safety certificate holder.

"[The club] has a healthy, long-standing relationship with the county council and all parties are working together to resolve this matter as quickly and efficiently as possible," a statement said.
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Can you imagine the angst and hair pulling if this was us??
 
headline grabbing non story, it will be back to normal in days! they just need to put a name against it!
 
merchantman5 said:
We would definately be in the ****. The story said Forrest was working with the council to resolve it. That would of been an unsurmountable problem for the Allams.
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Why do people on here insist on spelling Forest as Forrest? Surely they know it is wrong?
"Forrest" is a surname, a "Forest" is a place with many trees. eg Sherwood Forest.
 
It's actually a big deal, the person who signs the safety certificate is potentially personally liable for things that go wrong at the stadium and since the Hillsborough Report, this is being taken far more seriously.

They'll obviously get someone in place and it will be sorted ahead of the season, but it's not just the formality it used to be.
 
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