Villa Park Redevelopment

[Chris Harte]

We just need to flip the sun rotations so the houses aren't north of the stadium but South of it.

People talk as though all the houses behind the Doug Ellis Stand would get no light at all from it's height being increased, but the vast majority do and would still get at least half a day of light. Just a thought.

[Brazilian Villain]

We just need to flip the sun rotations so the houses aren't north of the stadium but South of it.

People talk as though all the houses behind the Doug Ellis Stand would get no light at all from it's height being increased, but the vast majority do and would still get at least half a day of light. Just a thought.

Exactly. It'll be even less of an issue once the Labour gov't start dimming the sunlight over the UK.

[pauliewalnuts]

We just need to flip the sun rotations so the houses aren't north of the stadium but South of it.

People talk as though all the houses behind the Doug Ellis Stand would get no light at all from it's height being increased, but the vast majority do and would still get at least half a day of light. Just a thought.

How gracious of the club to allow them their half a day of light.

It’s a legal entitlement not something open to interpretation.

[PeterWithe]

Couldn't we turn the floodlights round so the houses get light that way? Or offer to pay their leccy bills so they can have the 'big light' on more often?

[Mellin]

I like it. Alternatively...we've all seen Up.

[Zouch Villa]

This is all getting rather silly.  All we need to do is mount a huge mirror to the top of the new North stand to reflect day light on to those impacted.

[The Edge]

The Trinity Road would be bigger. The upper tier tapers in, while we have that pavilion style box near the Holte.

I've never liked the look of that 3 tier block in the holte/Trinity corner and I'd love to see the Trinity and The Holte squared off which would involve building over the Trinity Rd again. This would give us around 5k extra seats. But it would mean losing all those corporate areas. I've sat in the Heineken lounge this season and it's fantastic. We would have to replace those corporate areas as corporate is top priority nowadays so I just don't see it happening. 

[Ads]

The Trinity Road would be bigger. The upper tier tapers in, while we have that pavilion style box near the Holte.

I've never liked the look of that 3 tier block in the holte/Trinity corner and I'd love to see the Trinity and The Holte squared off which would involve building over the Trinity Rd again. This would give us around 5k extra seats. But it would mean losing all those corporate areas. I've sat in the Heineken lounge this season and it's fantastic. We would have to replace those corporate areas as corporate is top priority nowadays so I just don't see it happening. 

Temporary reallocated elsewhere, then you open up even more of the GA+/fancy pants seats and a couple thousand general admission. Put us on 55k as well.

[AV82EC]

Yep. I think sorting that corner out would be a real “easy” win. You could easily balance a distribution of seats between GA/GA+ and Hosp with an extra 5k seats. In fact that’ll be the case for the extended North as well.

[PeterWithe]

I was recently sitting in the NS and agree that there is a huge amount of wasted space between the TRS and HE, but underneath that space is a road I'd guess would not be easy to build over.

[AV82EC]

I was recently sitting in the NS and agree that there is a huge amount of wasted space between the TRS and HE, but underneath that space is a road I'd guess would not be easy to build over.

I don’t see why not, we’ve already built over it once.

[Somniloquism]

Not so much the road as we built over that, but the land the other side of it.

[Crown Hill]

May be issues with park land and trees.

Villa Park has always been gripped like tweezers by Trinity Road and Witton Lane which is why the stands had the shape they did.

[PeterWithe]

Not so much the road as we built over that, but the land the other side of it.

I suppose there has never been a better time to attempt to buy land from the council.

[chrisw1]

Surely squaring off the Holt would add 500 - 1,000 at best?

Wrapping it would add a bit more, but people are massively against filling corners.  I can't see any return on investment there.

All the available space is at the North Stand.  If we want to go beyond 50k any time soon (next 10 years) we really need to be far more ambitious with that project and wrap the corners at the lower levels at the very least.