The council’s executive members met on July 16, and formally agreed to put the freehold up for sale to the club.
Coun Neghat Khan (Lab), council leader, said the approval means from the council’s point of view ‘we’ve done everything we can’ to get a deal done.
The decision means the council is happy with the terms of the deal on its side and the club must now reach its conclusion.
In a statement the club said last week it ‘continues to work on the terms for a conditional deal for the purchase of the freehold’.
It added the purchase is ‘entirely conditional on Nottingham Forest first being granted the relevant permissions that will allow us to realise our hugely ambitious plans our hugely ambitious plans for a significantly larger stadium capacity, world-class hospitality spaces and associated substantial real estate development in the vicinity of the ground’.
The club has been contacted for further comment.
Nottingham Forest currently leases the land from the council, but there had been just 33 years left on the existing agreemen
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