NSWE Investment

[cdbearsfan]

We haven't got decades. We'll be dead and so will our planet.

Vlad is going to shit the bed pretty soon and we'll all be scrabbling around for radioactive rats to eat.

White wine or red with radioactive rats? I'd like to know in advance, if possible. Just because society has broken down doesn't mean etiquette has to, too.

[cdbearsfan]

Any new stand at Villa Park should be clad in redbrick externally with bloody great mosaics - we've never replaced the ones that stood on the Trinity Road.

That's pretty much what I put in the VP survey.

We could of course buy up the houses on McGregor Close and Holte Road and move Witton Lane back by 40yds, thereby giving us some decent room for a proper 15,000 stand - after all it's not as if Birmingam City Council is disinclined to change road layouts - they've done it enough times in and around the city centre over the years.

Others will know more about the local dynamics but surely if you offer the residents a fair market value plus a sufficient premium they might be persuaded to sell up and enable us to expand it into Witton Lane. Aston isn't exactly Bel-Air.

It would only take one resident to reject the offer to scupper the whole move, though. I think they'd struggle to get unanimous agreement even if they offered double the values.

[andyh]

I’d hope Villa have been buying properties on the road as they become available and also others in the area so they can offer to relocate people in their current community.  It might take decades but would be a good investment.

I’d hope the club are treating local residents with more consideration and respect.

[Chap]

AV floodlights please.

Yes please!!😁

[dave.woodhall]

I’d hope Villa have been buying properties on the road as they become available and also others in the area so they can offer to relocate people in their current community.  It might take decades but would be a good investment.

I’d hope the club are treating local residents with more consideration and respect.

Seconded. I hope the days of the "We were here first" attitude have gone forever.

[pauliewalnuts]

I’d hope Villa have been buying properties on the road as they become available and also others in the area so they can offer to relocate people in their current community.  It might take decades but would be a good investment.

I’d hope the club are treating local residents with more consideration and respect.

Indeed, doing what Liverpool did to the streets at the back of their new stand would be revolting.

[Dante Lavelli]

I’d hope Villa have been buying properties on the road as they become available and also others in the area so they can offer to relocate people in their current community.  It might take decades but would be a good investment.

I’d hope the club are treating local residents with more consideration and respect.

“as they become available” and “take decades” isn’t disrespectful.  Or is it, have I missed something?

[dave.woodhall]

I’d hope Villa have been buying properties on the road as they become available and also others in the area so they can offer to relocate people in their current community.  It might take decades but would be a good investment.

I’d hope the club are treating local residents with more consideration and respect.

“as they become available” and “take decades” isn’t disrespectful.  Or is it, have I missed something?

What happens to the houses they've bought in the meantime? Do they lie empty and let fall derelict?

[algy]

I’d hope Villa have been buying properties on the road as they become available and also others in the area so they can offer to relocate people in their current community.  It might take decades but would be a good investment.

I’d hope the club are treating local residents with more consideration and respect.

Indeed, doing what Liverpool did to the streets at the back of their new stand would be revolting.

Add me to the most of people who don't want us to follow Liverpool's horrendous example. I'd hope that the club would be seen as 'good neighbours' and do what is reasonably within it's grasp to help the area whose name is borrows.

[cdbearsfan]

Could we add seating dangling from the roof if we had those safe seats like an Alton Towers ride? What about if we had a glass ceiling a hundred feet above the pitch allowing people to watch the game from above? Should be safe now that Una Stubbs is no longer with us.

[chrisw1]

I’d hope Villa have been buying properties on the road as they become available and also others in the area so they can offer to relocate people in their current community.  It might take decades but would be a good investment.

I’d hope the club are treating local residents with more consideration and respect.

“as they become available” and “take decades” isn’t disrespectful.  Or is it, have I missed something?

What happens to the houses they've bought in the meantime? Do they lie empty and let fall derelict?

This isn’t my plan, but the obvious answer to that is they let them out and be good landlords until they need them back.

[SaddVillan]

Buy them, but allow the occupants/previous owners to continue to live in them at modest rents until such time as we want to start work - thereby enabling them to build up some dosh towards a new house?

[cdbearsfan]

I'm not sure kicking someone out of their house but allowing them to stay "at modest rents" until you're ready to send the bulldozers in is a scheme that would guarantee good PR for the club, if I'm being honest.

[Drummond]

Buy them all up and put the Academy players in them.

I am of course joking. We need to work with our neighbours, and treat them as such.

[Rory]

I'm not too familiar with the details, but are we able to expand and improve the corporate and media facilities in the Witton and reduce the regular seating to create a little more space and reduce the numbers in the concourses?

Once the North is redeveloped, the view from the Witton will be the best in the ground for the neutral, facing the new North, the Trinity and the Holte.

To me, it makes no sense to put the media and corporates facing the soon-to-be shittest stand.

If Witton station is to be expanded, it makes sense for the new North to be the kind of 'reception' of the ground, with ticket offices, customer services, shop, museum etc. Then sacrifice capacity for expanded and top notch media and corporate facilities in the Witton, with a direct link to the 'front door' of the North, and then the Trinity and Holte can be two huge expanses of Villa fans, and exactly what visitors, away fans, media and corporates see and hear, face-on.