Villa Park Redevelopment

[VillaTim]

apologies , i thought The Warehouse building was originally a bus depot ?

[Des Little]

Bus depot is further down the road, opposite side

[VillaTim]

Bus depot is further down the road, opposite side

yeah i know where you mean now , nearer to the roundabout by Witton Arms.
What was this original building that Villa own used for originally ? or is the clue in the new name for it

[DeKuip]

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So that’s where the fun zone has been right?
Do we know where it will move to?

Asking for a just 4yo preparing to take up her 3rd yr of being a ST holder and her lil’ Sis. The most important part of the day for them!
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Wherever they can charge the most. I don’t think they really want kids there.

[VillaTim]

So that’s where the fun zone has been right?
Do we know where it will move to?

Asking for a just 4yo preparing to take up her 3rd yr of being a ST holder and her lil’ Sis. The most important part of the day for them!
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Wherever they can charge the most. I don’t think they really want kids there.
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Kids are welcome in Zone 1 areas where they can enjoy full adult price tickets

[Des Little]

This is a masterclass in bad quoting. Cheered me up on a miserable day :-)

[Brazilian Villain]

So that’s where the fun zone has been right?
Do we know where it will move to?

The pitch.

[Bad English]

Oh Birmingham!

[tomd2103]

Good observation that.

I’d like to see something that pays architectural homage to the old Trinity entrance.

Would be nice, but the Holte is a bit of a homage to the old Trinity Road stand isn’t it? 

[eamonn]

Oh Birmingham!

So much to answer for

[pauliewalnuts]

Good observation that.

I’d like to see something that pays architectural homage to the old Trinity entrance.

Would be nice, but the Holte is a bit of a homage to the old Trinity Road stand isn’t it? 

Yeah.

I think we over-do the homage thing in general.

If we need to pay homage in some way, make it more general and less specific - so, use brick of the colour the Victorians / Edwardians used rather than recreate what they built with it.

[Sexual Ealing]

Good observation that.

I’d like to see something that pays architectural homage to the old Trinity entrance.

Would be nice, but the Holte is a bit of a homage to the old Trinity Road stand isn’t it? 

Yeah.

I think we over-do the homage thing in general.

If we need to pay homage in some way, make it more general and less specific - so, use brick of the colour the Victorians / Edwardians used rather than recreate what they built with it.

Exactly. (I've nicked this thought from someone, but I don't know who) We were pioneers back then. Let's be that again, rather than some kind of museum piece.

[Risso]

If part of the attraction of being where we are is that it’s a historic ground at the bottom of the hill from a Grade 1 listed hall, rather than an identikit plastic bowl on a retail park, then I think it needs to at least try to look the part. It doesn’t have to be the football equivalent of a mock Tudor mansion, but it does need to at least have a nod to its past in my opinion.

[Sexual Ealing]

If part of the attraction of being where we are is that it’s a historic ground at the bottom of the hill from a Grade 1 listed hall, rather than an identikit plastic bowl on a retail park, then I think it needs to at least try to look the part. It doesn’t have to be the football equivalent of a mock Tudor mansion, but it does need to at least have a nod to its past in my opinion.

I'm all for that, but building replicas of long-since demolished buildings isn't the answer.

[Risso]

If part of the attraction of being where we are is that it’s a historic ground at the bottom of the hill from a Grade 1 listed hall, rather than an identikit plastic bowl on a retail park, then I think it needs to at least try to look the part. It doesn’t have to be the football equivalent of a mock Tudor mansion, but it does need to at least have a nod to its past in my opinion.

I'm all for that, but building replicas of long-since demolished buildings isn't the answer.

No, I think the front of the Holte is a great approach and enough in the Victorian red brick swirly architecture. I’d like the new stand to have small elements of this built in, rather than just being a bland load of shit like the present North or the DE.