{"id":247853,"date":"2025-10-29T04:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247853\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T04:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:20:15","slug":"afl-reaffirms-stadium-requirement-for-tasmanias-19th-team-after-mps-plea-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247853\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL reaffirms stadium requirement for Tasmania\u2019s 19th team after MPs plea – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The AFL<\/a> has maintained their stance on Tasmania’s 19th license, conditioned on a new stadium, despite a delegation of Parliament members opposing the build.<\/p>\n

Greens Vica Bayley and Cassy O’Connor, and Independents Peter George and Kristie Johnston met with new AFL<\/a> COO Tom Harley in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

It is understood that the group of four asked the league to reconsider the 23,000-seat and roofed stadium.<\/p>\n

A statement from the league read:<\/p>\n

“AFL<\/a> COO Tom Harley met with a delegation of two members of the Tasmanian Greens and two Independents today. He listened to a range of views and appreciated the group travelling to AFL<\/a> House and putting those views forward.<\/p>\n

“The AFL’s continued position is a clear component of the licence bid from the Tasmanian taskforce was a new roofed stadium at Macquarie Point with a capacity of at least 23,000.<\/p>\n

“It is a condition for the grant of the 19th licence, and that position has not changed.<\/p>\n

“The AFL<\/a> look forward to the vote on the stadium in the coming weeks and the state continuing to build on the momentum and progress already made by the Tasmania Devils<\/a> and their 214,000 members.”<\/p>\n

\"BuildingBuilding the stadium was a condition of the government’s deal with the AFL for a state team. (Supplied: Tasmanian government)<\/p>\n

The Tasmanian Planning Commission (TPC) recently recommended against building the stadium due to its size and cost.<\/p>\n

“The Integrated Assessment Report (IAR) identifies a number of benefits and disbenefits that would accrue if the Project proceeds. The Panel has concluded that the benefits are outweighed by the disbenefits.<\/p>\n

“The fundamental problem is the size, location and geographical features of the site, in its highly valued context, do not support the disproportionately large, monolithic building proposed.<\/p>\n

“It is a building which is incongruent with the valued characteristics of its spatial context, completely at odds with the long-established planning principles guiding and informing development, and with the land and urban fabric surrounding the site and the heritage values associated with nearby places.<\/p>\n

“Proceeding with the Project will give rise to irrevocable and unacceptable adverse impacts on Hobart’s spatial and landscape character, urban form and historic cultural heritage.”<\/p>\n

A decision on the venue will be made later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AFL has maintained their stance on Tasmania’s 19th license, conditioned on a new stadium, despite a delegation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-247853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}