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By Jamie Spencer Manchester United are welcoming plans from Trafford Council to regenerate the area surrounding Old Trafford, with the stadium one of five designated areas to bring new life to the community. United are faced with their own plans for the future, with new 25% owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe intending to make Old Trafford into a ‘Wembley of the north’, likely through redevelopment or rebuilding from the ground up on the existing site, rather than relocating to a new site. Staying put and working in the area that the club has called home for 114 years since 1910 appeared to be given furth…