[4] Truro City submitted a planning application for a 16,000-seat stadium, costing £12 million, on the site of their existing Treyew Road ground in June 2005.
[5][6] The plans conceived a stadium that would host the Cornish Pirates rugby union team and music concerts as well as the Truro City football club.
[10] In response to this rejection, Truro City and Cornish Pirates began developing joint plans for a 16,000 seater stadium on a 50-acre site in Threemilestone.
[11][12] While developing those plans, the two clubs had agreed to share the Treyew Road ground, but Truro City withdrew after they were advised the pitch could not sustain both sports.
[23] The project had been on hold until 2015, when following the general election and the Conservative Party's winning every Cornish seat, Chancellor George Osborne said the government intends to comply with the Prime Minister's pre-election promise to deliver a Stadium for Cornwall.
In October 2021 Cornish Pirates Chairman Paul Durkin stated that, if the project was not able to secure £14m of funding from the government, a smaller stadium with a capacity of 6,000 could be constructed.
[27] By January 2018 work had still not started some 7 years after the idea had been first mooted, the money promised by David Cameron's government had not materialised and Stadium For Cornwall was forced to apply for public funding.
Members also agreed that the Council will help with preparing, submitting and supporting a bid to the Government for the further £3 million needed to deliver the Stadium for Cornwall.
[35] In 2020 Lord Myners wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeking £14m funding and arguing that the stadium could be completed by 2022.