Villa Park Redevelopment

[Ads]

We'd need to purchase 8 or 9 houses, tops. It's not 100s. Equally, the Trinity holds ~2k more than the Witton Lane.

[eamonn]

You can see the sheets are piss wet through from here. Really poor behaviour.

Christ, being quoted on Small Heath Alliance, amongst all the wank socks and crayons. Absolute low, pass Chris the Tena Lady now.

Was she the one in the Mini with Peter Shilton?

I will never, ever, not be amused by references to that incident.

One for 'tanian and sexual (a brand new one in fact):

Screwing in a charity shop
On top of black bin bags
Full of donations
The smell of digestive biscuits in the air

Welcome back to dreamland, we all know your name
T.I.N.A. Still reads her book on the train
Tina (Tina)

[Dogtanian]

Too new, you’re leaving us all behind!

[VILLA MOLE]

We'd need to purchase 8 or 9 houses, tops. It's not 100s. Equally, the Trinity holds ~2k more than the Witton Lane.

I think it would be as it is not just  the directly adjacent ones.  Also is Trinity not 3.5 k more ?

[FatSam]

We'd need to purchase 8 or 9 houses, tops. It's not 100s. Equally, the Trinity holds ~2k more than the Witton Lane.

It’s not 100s, but it’s not 8/9 either. As well as the footprint of a larger stand, there is the impact of a taller stand on the amenity of surrounding houses, and highways engineering to redirect the road, or just provide access for the larger capacity.

[Villan82]

A clarification on my post yesterday.

I have no issue with the adaptive re-use. It is very clever.

My issue is that I am surprised they didn't go further back into all that area so that the concourses and capacity would be bigger like the previous proposal. It seems to literally only go back a small bit and will still be a smaller capacity than the Holte. That new end at Anfield will be 16k, this will be 12k.

That's all I'm saying. The Witton End is the one area of the ground where we can go really big. Without (the welcome) modification of the other stands the capacity uplift with this gets us to 48,800.

[VILLA MOLE]

i can only assume if they went even bigger it would infringe on the other developments behind the Stand

[Sexual Ealing]

A clarification on my post yesterday.

I have no issue with the adaptive re-use. It is very clever.

My issue is that I am surprised they didn't go further back into all that area so that the concourses and capacity would be bigger like the previous proposal. It seems to literally only go back a small bit and will still be a smaller capacity than the Holte. That new end at Anfield will be 16k, this will be 12k.

That's all I'm saying. The Witton End is the one area of the ground where we can go really big. Without (the welcome) modification of the other stands the capacity uplift with this gets us to 48,800.

Thank you for clarifying. My family has been tearing itself apart.

[Dick Edwards]

I went to Anfield last night to see Bruce Springsteen. I've got to say Liverpool's ground is a right ugly mess. Their Dalglish stand looks similar to our Witton Lane but the stand opposite is enormous. The aesthetics don't seem to have been a priority, just to cram in as many fans as possible. I was in the Kop and the leg room is the worst I've experienced at a football ground. Luckily you can stand there. As for the mighty Kop, it's tiny. I would guess the Holte is a good third bigger in size.

[eamonn]

That makes me feel less jealous of the Redshite's success! Cheers!

[Dogtanian]

Yeah, Anfield is hideous. And I have to admit, the ‘famous’ atmosphere has rarely been present whenever I’ve been there.

[The Edge]

I went to Anfield last night to see Bruce Springsteen. I've got to say Liverpool's ground is a right ugly mess. Their Dalglish stand looks similar to our Witton Lane but the stand opposite is enormous. The aesthetics don't seem to have been a priority, just to cram in as many fans as possible. I was in the Kop and the leg room is the worst I've experienced at a football ground. Luckily you can stand there. As for the mighty Kop, it's tiny. I would guess the Holte is a good third bigger in size.

I was inside Anfield when the old Kop terrace was still there. I stood right in front of it. I was amazed how small it was compared to our Holte End terrace. It was listed as having a capacity of 30,000 at that time. It went around the sides a fair bit so it wasn't just "an end" I would not have wanted to be in there with 30,000 people that's for sure 

[olaftab]

We'd need to purchase 8 or 9 houses, tops. It's not 100s. Equally, the Trinity holds ~2k more than the Witton Lane.

It’s not 100s, but it’s not 8/9 either. As well as the footprint of a larger stand, there is the impact of a taller stand on the amenity of surrounding houses, and highways engineering to redirect the road, or just provide access for the larger capacity.

Yes but in few years it will be a Reform government and residents will be deported and we can claim empty houses.

[Max Villan]

Thing is, is an end stand really one for big hospitality sales?

They will always be side stand , half way line. The big gains will come if we can extend the witton lane.

Big potential of we could offer to revamp the area surrounding witton station, with new build apartments and maybe a space for a restaurant or two and bar.

Witton station is only a couple of stops from the centre, if we could get the council to buy into us making it a bohemian little area around witton station , it could work.

It would involve CPO'ing the houses round there, but the council are doing similar in Ladywood.

How long are we supposed to just let inner Birmingham decline?

[olaftab]

A clarification on my post yesterday.

Thank you, it’s important. I said to my friend last night, I said I am sure Villan82 will comeback with a clarification.