Villa Park Redevelopment

[manic-road]

I hope it will look like what media is showing as what it will look like.

[Ad@m]

Has anyone seen any interior plans?  All the images on that link are of the exterior which gives me hope they're contemplating a single tier monster....

[LukeJames]

55 seconds into the video on the Official Site it shows it.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Has anyone seen any interior plans?  All the images on that link are of the exterior which gives me hope they're contemplating a single tier monster....

https://www.avfc.co.uk/villa-park/villa-park-future/

[tomd2103]

Good news and the pictures look great.  Can't quite work out from the pictures if it is fully enclosed with the Trinity Road and Doug Ellis stands.

[brontebilly]

West ham, old trafford, Sunderland and the smaller dublin one would be my guess.

From an Irish perspective, I would say Casement Park then Croke Park are more likely to be cut than the Aviva.

Croke Park is a horrible place to play 'soccer'. Was tried before and the pitch is too big. End up with fans further away from the action.

[brontebilly]

The shame about the Aviva is the tiny section behind one of the goals. Like the dip in tiers at Brighton's Amex stadium, makes it look a bit tinpot. Impressive structure from the outside though.

I think the 'Aviva' is a dump inside. Can't recall which stand but the gradient on the upper deck (one nearer the sea) is incredibly steep and your knees will be nearly touching the ears of the person in front of you.

Surprised Thomond Park (Limerick) isnt in the shake up. The national soccer team did play a friendly or two there before and the rugby pitch dimensions are better for soccer than GAA.

[cdbearsfan]

They want to include Northern Ireland and are, seemingly, only having one ground per Celtic nation. No way they'd include Limerick ahead of Celtic/Rangers/Murrayfield.

[Russ aka Big Nose]

The video (at the end) suggests that the area behind the North Stand - the car park, club shop, etc. - will, in the future, have access to Witton Road, presumably both for vehicles and pedestrians.

I think there is an access point now, though when I recently parked to the side of the club shop there was a gate and it looked like it was seldom unlocked.

In any event, the plans look exciting and approval is another step forward. UTV.

[London Villan]

Construction starting late next year - which answers the questions about gigs and motocross at Villa Park in the summer.

[UK Redsox]

There's been rumours that we might get kicked out from our seats behind the dugout in order for the away staff to be better segregated from fans (it's caused problems in the past) and to make the area Premium Seating.

Therefore, if anyone sees details in the plans regarding reconfiguration of the central LTR, please let me know

[cdbearsfan]

Any ideas how long it will take?

[London Villan]

The ticket office have said this isn't happening, despite it appearing in the planning documents submitted to the council... I can see there being a bit of push back on this from fans behind the dugouts.

[London Villan]

I think the new stand will open at the start of the 25-26 season.

[rjp]

The video (at the end) suggests that the area behind the North Stand - the car park, club shop, etc. - will, in the future, have access to Witton Road, presumably both for vehicles and pedestrians.

I think there is an access point now, though when I recently parked to the side of the club shop there was a gate and it looked like it was seldom unlocked.

In any event, the plans look exciting and approval is another step forward. UTV.

I don't normally head that way but the only time I've known that gate to be unlocked was after playing Small Heath in the 5-1 and heading to Witton station after the game.  The police sent everyone that way instead of Witton Lane to help segregation.