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Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #480 on: May 27, 2021, 10:17:56 PM »
Nothing less than 50k it's not worth doing otherwise.

I'd go further and say 51,000 so you can aspire to having over 50,000 every game. Nice round number. Attendance just under 50,000 seems wrong. Certainly there is no point in redeveloping to 48k.

I do think they'll wait and see whether people want to come back in such numbers post-Covid before making any commitment to expansion, and can't really blame them if they do.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #481 on: May 27, 2021, 10:26:49 PM »
How many do we have on the waiting list for STs?

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #482 on: May 27, 2021, 10:39:23 PM »
I was in the Holte on Monday. All this talk of redevelopment had me looking at the North Stand with a whole new appreciation of its aesthetic, akin to how I felt about the Madin library in that brief period when they'd stripped away all the bollocks that had got added on to it over the years before knocking it down. I like it. It's pretty unique, I can't readily think of anything similar elsewhere.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #483 on: May 27, 2021, 10:42:29 PM »
There weren’t that many stands built in that period. Spurs, wolves, forest. Cant think of any behind goal stands with two levels of boxes.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #484 on: May 27, 2021, 10:46:47 PM »



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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #485 on: May 28, 2021, 06:52:35 AM »
Ive posted these before, but they were the more detailed plans under Lerner.










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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #486 on: May 28, 2021, 06:55:16 AM »
Max capacity with that plan 50,734.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #487 on: May 28, 2021, 09:43:58 AM »
Does that come with a cheese room?

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #488 on: May 28, 2021, 11:40:18 AM »
I'd like to see us aim for 55k, but it's hard to see how we would get there with the current site restrictions. 

Although it looks a bit lopsided, the Lerner plans do make some sense, although I'd prefer to see a better connection to the Witton stand if we go for the horeseshoe solution.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #489 on: May 28, 2021, 01:31:50 PM »
What was the mooted capacity under the Lerner plans, 52k?

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #490 on: May 28, 2021, 01:34:35 PM »
What was the mooted capacity under the Lerner plans, 52k?
50,734 according to those images

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #491 on: May 28, 2021, 01:38:09 PM »
What was the mooted capacity under the Lerner plans, 52k?
50,734 according to those images

Where are these plans/images?

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #492 on: May 28, 2021, 01:53:58 PM »
What was the mooted capacity under the Lerner plans, 52k?
50,734 according to those images

Where are these plans/images?
In the post above

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #493 on: May 28, 2021, 02:03:21 PM »
The Nirth Stand is the obvious candidate for Phase 1 redevelopment. I think it will happen in the next few years if the fans are allowed back fully  and we fill the ground consistently. I reckon you could squeeze it to ~55,000 if the corners were filled in between the Trinity and Witton Lane. It’s nice having 4 separate stands, but it’s a waste of space and it makes sense to do it if the North Stand is rebuilt. Stick the away fans in one corner like at the Emirates and it’s job done.

If they really wanted to think big- do the Witton Lane stand out over the road and have it all matched up to the height of the Trinity. That would be the best outcome.

You can't extend Witton Lane because of the houses.


you don't think they would let them go over the road Dave ?

Into where? There's green space on the other side of the road then rows of houses that would be overlooked
As oithers have said, north stand should be the first priority. You could probably squeeze a few more rows out of the witton lane by extending to the back of the footpath, it's unlikely that the overlooking would be any worse than currently experienced. That said, the benefit in terms of additional capacity would unlikely be worth the cost of doing so.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #494 on: May 28, 2021, 02:16:48 PM »
I cannot imagine the club will want to be embroiled in bad publicity connected to the local community in any plans to expand the Witton. We are very limited in terms of what can be done there. North has lots of scope for improvement. I want a standard and an exterior facade that all older, more traditional fans (ours and rivals) look at and admire as what a stand should look like, not just walk past or up to it like it didn’t exist as they’ve seen it at every other modern ground.

 


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