Villa Park Redevelopment

[paul_e]

There's a good point made on that forum Percy linked to - for its size, Villa Park doesn't hold as many as it should. It's badly configured and you should be able to do a lot more both in terms of capacity and facilities.

Which is what Heck meant by 'bowl optimisation'. I think the talk at the time was that there could be as many as 1500-2000 extra seats without reducing spacing or any major structural changes, and then another 1000 or so by converting the trinity to 2 tiers. Some of that work has been done already but I reckon it'll all happen by the time the north is finished.

[algy]

Well it sounds like by the end of the improvements we’ll have a 52.5k capacity ground, which is closer to what they were saying on that forum should be the right capacity for the size of the stadium.