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[Demitri_C]

For all its faults regarding transport, the great asset Villa Park enjoys is two stations and two motorway junctions. I can't think of anywhere else in the city where we could get that.

Thats the problem it has all of this and its still a shambles getting home. When i went spurs its double what we have in terms of capacity and terrible for congestion but you can still get home easier than villa park.

[chrisw1]

In terms of car park, it wouldn't necessarily have to be a full on multi storey - a simple open air 2 deck car park would be relatively cheap and more than compensate for any parking lost by the redev.

[PeterWithe]

You'd wonder if the Star City site would be an option, its struggled for years. Or the area along the spine road where the HS2 Enabling yard is.

[The Edge]

For all its faults regarding transport, the great asset Villa Park enjoys is two stations and two motorway junctions. I can't think of anywhere else in the city where we could get that.

It really shouldn't be that difficult considering.

Even though there's two stations it's the same stretch of track. Maybe they could try 1 or 2 football specials northbound Witton only and City centre Aston only. But again with no co-operation from the train providers it's very difficult. Again ANDY STREET where are you?

[eamonn]

On an interminable conference call with Flin5tone.

[exigo]

For all its faults regarding transport, the great asset Villa Park enjoys is two stations and two motorway junctions. I can't think of anywhere else in the city where we could get that.

It really shouldn't be that difficult considering.

Even though there's two stations it's the same stretch of track. Maybe they could try 1 or 2 football specials northbound Witton only and City centre Aston only. But again with no co-operation from the train providers it's very difficult. Again ANDY STREET where are you?

That would send most away fans towards Aston, which is exactly what the current system tries to avoid.

[PeterWithe]

Pity there’s not a site near the new Curzon St station where we could build. I’d love a new state of the art stadium in the city centre.

Something someone told me the other day is that HS2 goes mainly underground from the turn off spur to Curzon St, if thats the case maybe there are lots of above ground options all along the route?

[Chris Smith]

Pity there’s not a site near the new Curzon St station where we could build. I’d love a new state of the art stadium in the city centre.

Something someone told me the other day is that HS2 goes mainly underground from the turn off spur to Curzon St, if thats the case maybe there are lots of above ground options all along the route?

Maybe, but I doubt anything would be sanctioned which might impact on HS2 construction, so that rules it until about  2099.

[Brazilian Villain]

Again ANDY STREET where are you?

In California, albeit 16 miles from Villa Park. https://tinyurl.com/yuaztc8n

[Brend'Watkins]

I'd be happy with a 50,000 capacity as it will cover demand for the next 5 to 10 years and it's doable architecturally with adjustments to the current ground.  Anything above for an all-seater stadium is tricky but doable at a cost.  A great cost.  It would mean road lay out changes, Housing purchases, transport upgrades etc which is all less viable. Safe standing if it actually becomes a thing could get us to 60,000 within most of the current footprint. A completely new North Stand would be required for this.

[Brazilian Villain]

I'd be happy with a 50,000 capacity as it will cover demand for the next 5 to 10 years and it's doable architecturally with adjustments to the current ground.  Anything above for an all-seater stadium is tricky but doable at a cost.  A great cost.  It would mean road lay out changes, Housing purchases, transport upgrades etc which is all less viable. Safe standing if it actually becomes a thing could get us to 60,000 within most of the current footprint. A completely new North Stand would be required for this.

All that sounds good to me, 50-60k would be plenty.

[Zouch Villa]

Emotions aside, one of the major factors against moving away from Villa park is the land would undoubtedly be worth far less than any site we’d want to move to.  I suspect a lot of the other teams that made the decision to move to a completely new build stadium, the financials made much more sense as there was significant value in redeveloping their previous site.

We would be far better investing in the infrastructure and an upgrade of Villa park to get us just north of 50k which should serve us fine for the foreseeable.  I’m also not convinced trying to plan parking and transport around the majority of fans driving to within half a mile of the ground. 

They should be looking at co-ordinated parking away from the ground with better transport links to shuttle fans.  The sad fact is, other than the game itself there’s very little reason for fans to spend more time in the area pre and post match, so we’ll always have the challenge of everyone arriving and leaving within the same time frame.

[Risso]

Emotions aside, one of the major factors against moving away from Villa park is the land would undoubtedly be worth far less than any site we’d want to move to.  I suspect a lot of the other teams that made the decision to move to a completely new build stadium, the financials made much more sense as there was significant value in redeveloping their previous site.

Depends where we want to move to. For a logistics company, land that close to J6 of the M6 could be very valuable.

[dave.woodhall]

Emotions aside, one of the major factors against moving away from Villa park is the land would undoubtedly be worth far less than any site we’d want to move to.  I suspect a lot of the other teams that made the decision to move to a completely new build stadium, the financials made much more sense as there was significant value in redeveloping their previous site.

Depends where we want to move to. For a logistics company, land that close to J6 of the M6 could be very valuable.

I'm no expert on these things but I would guess that you'd have a problem with getting permission for that in a residential area

[Drummond]

Maybe we'd have 2 Villa Parks. The current one for the Academy and Women.... Effectively redevelop the site and create a community hub, with lots of different activities.