Villa Park Redevelopment

[pauliewalnuts]

It will be tough enough to upgrade transport links to handle 50k inside the next two years so god knows how we’d handle 60k without infrastructure spending the likes of which only really happens in London, even given more time to do it in.

[saunders_heroes]

CEO accompanies famous VIP guest back into the owners box. What's the world coming to?

Agreed. Big deal.

[astonvilla82]

It will be tough enough to upgrade transport links to handle 50k inside the next two years so god knows how we’d handle 60k without infrastructure spending the likes of which only really happens in London, even given more time to do it in.

London is subsided by the scanty London government

[ez]

CEO accompanies famous VIP guest back into the owners box. What's the world coming to?

He thought we were playing Forest.

[Footy-Vill]

Purslow was saying today, we have 29k on the ST waiting list, obviously very happy with the expansion, but with such a long waiting list, we will eventually have to be looking at a capacity around the 60k mark.

Ha! With the results we serve up, I think we'll be fine til we're all dead.

Purslow when asked on BT sport yesterday why is expansion of Villa Park so important?

"I'm extremely proud of our wonderful club. We have an absolutely storied history. We founded professional football in this country. This wonderful stadium, where we are today, is a cathedral. All football fans love it here.
We need to modernise this stadium. We need to provide suitable accommodation; we have 29,000 fans now on a waiting list so we need more seats. This new stand will take us to just over 50,000.
And crucially, the stadium will be compliant with FIFA and UEFA, so that brings the possibility of this wonderful stadium hosting international football again in the future, as it's done many times in the past."

[algy]

It will be tough enough to upgrade transport links to handle 50k inside the next two years so god knows how we’d handle 60k without infrastructure spending the likes of which only really happens in London, even given more time to do it in.

London is subsided by the scanty London government

Was talking to my dad about this a couple of weeks back. It's all done on a cost-benefit analysis and so because potentially 40m+ people will get use from anything built in the SE then it generally gets an easy ride, whereas he lives in the middle of Wales where there's only about 50000 people spread across 2/3rds of Wales so getting lottery funding, government funding (from Westminster) etc is practically impossible cos it's only ever going to "benefit" a few thousand folk ... even if for those people it'd make a huge difference to their standard of living. E.g. there's several people round his way that don't have mains water or electricity. It's a mad place really, like a 3rd world country in places.

Anyway, same is going to be true, albeit not on quite such an extreme scale, here. They're going to have to make damn sure that the changes they're proposing will benefit a lot more folk then just the residents of B6 and 40k football supporters.

[Risso]

Our beloved local paper now reporting that work will only start on the new North Stand when plans for an upgraded Witton station have been approved, and as nothing seems to have been discussed yet, that's surely going to set it back by quite a while?

[dave.woodhall]

Our beloved local paper now reporting that work will only start on the new North Stand when plans for an upgraded Witton station have been approved, and as nothing seems to have been discussed yet, that's surely going to set it back by quite a while?

That was always going to be the case. It's all dependent on the station, but I don't think we would sound so positive without some cast-iron guarantees. 

[London Villan]

The private sector moves a little more quickly than the pseudo-public sector though. Have the plans for the station even been submitted? Will there be anything significant there, other than better queueing system? No new platforms, and certainly no new tracks to accommodate extra post-match trains.

This will probably mean a big hold-up, as it's not even mentioned in any of the future transport plans for the region.

Even new lifts, access and space for queues is a £10m - £15m job... who is going to pay for that? Us probably!

[WassallVillain]

The private sector moves a little more quickly than the pseudo-public sector though. Have the plans for the station even been submitted? Will there be anything significant there, other than better queueing system? No new platforms, and certainly no new tracks to accommodate extra post-match trains.

This will probably mean a big hold-up, as it's not even mentioned in any of the future transport plans for the region.

Even new lifts, access and space for queues is a £10m - £15m job... who is going to pay for that? Us probably!

It can’t need much more than a platform extension and access egress onto station road  throw in a footbridge over railway for foot traffic from new academy site a lick of paint for the bridge job done.

[dave.woodhall]

The private sector moves a little more quickly than the pseudo-public sector though. Have the plans for the station even been submitted? Will there be anything significant there, other than better queueing system? No new platforms, and certainly no new tracks to accommodate extra post-match trains.

This will probably mean a big hold-up, as it's not even mentioned in any of the future transport plans for the region.

Even new lifts, access and space for queues is a £10m - £15m job... who is going to pay for that? Us probably!

It'll be publicly funded, which is where the Commonwealth Games helped us. You did it for them, you can do it for us; Invisible Andy is saying all the right things on this one. 

[Pat Mustard]

The improvements to the station are all part of the plans - I don't know how the planning process works for things like this as it has a wider impact on transport in the region than just the building of a new stand, but I wouldn't imagine it will be a significant hold up.  The redevelopment of Perry Barr station was brought through pretty quickly after we won the Commonwealth Games, and it seems that the club have been working closely with the WMCA throughout the process to tie it in to wider improvements to the Train network across the West Mids.

I can't see that anything significant is going to be happening on the new stand much before the end of this year anyway, and then it's looking at a 2 year build I think so I'm sure the timeline is all in hand.

[London Villan]

The private sector moves a little more quickly than the pseudo-public sector though. Have the plans for the station even been submitted? Will there be anything significant there, other than better queueing system? No new platforms, and certainly no new tracks to accommodate extra post-match trains.

This will probably mean a big hold-up, as it's not even mentioned in any of the future transport plans for the region.

Even new lifts, access and space for queues is a £10m - £15m job... who is going to pay for that? Us probably!

It can’t need much more than a platform extension and access egress onto station road  throw in a footbridge over railway for foot traffic from new academy site a lick of paint for the bridge job done.

That will be £20m please.

[Pat Mustard]

The private sector moves a little more quickly than the pseudo-public sector though. Have the plans for the station even been submitted? Will there be anything significant there, other than better queueing system? No new platforms, and certainly no new tracks to accommodate extra post-match trains.

This will probably mean a big hold-up, as it's not even mentioned in any of the future transport plans for the region.

Even new lifts, access and space for queues is a £10m - £15m job... who is going to pay for that? Us probably!

It can’t need much more than a platform extension and access egress onto station road  throw in a footbridge over railway for foot traffic from new academy site a lick of paint for the bridge job done.

That will be £20m please.

Maybe we can call it the Danny Ings Bridge then?

[Drummond]

The private sector moves a little more quickly than the pseudo-public sector though. Have the plans for the station even been submitted? Will there be anything significant there, other than better queueing system? No new platforms, and certainly no new tracks to accommodate extra post-match trains.

This will probably mean a big hold-up, as it's not even mentioned in any of the future transport plans for the region.

Even new lifts, access and space for queues is a £10m - £15m job... who is going to pay for that? Us probably!

It can’t need much more than a platform extension and access egress onto station road  throw in a footbridge over railway for foot traffic from new academy site a lick of paint for the bridge job done.

That will be £20m please.

Maybe we can call it the Danny Ings Bridge then?

You having first DIBs on that name?