Nottingham City Council deny claims they are holding up Forest stadium plans

Nottingham Forest are facing counter-allegations that they are to blame for having “stalled” talks in the dispute that is threatening the future of the City Ground.
As reported by The Athletic, the club are giving serious consideration to leaving their home of the last 125 years in a favour of a new 50,000-seat stadium elsewhere in the city.
Toton, six miles out of the city centre, is the favoured site and Forest’s chairman, Tom Cartledge, says he blames the club’s landlords, Nottingham City Council, because of a dispute over extending the City Ground lease.
Cartledge said he…