Villa Park Redevelopment

[Percy McCarthy]

I googled 53a Tame Road. Apparently it’s the most expensive property in the postcode, worth about £7m. It was last bought for £4.8m in 2018, and its value has increased by over half-a-million in the last month.

Is it the Academy do you think?

[Crown Hill]

That’s where it is in the map!

[Percy McCarthy]

That’s where it is in the map!

Haha, thanks! I haven’t got a fucking clue have I.

[Crown Hill]

That’s where it is in the map!

Haha, thanks! I haven’t got a fucking clue have I.

I did find out it was a Coal Meechants in 1962!

[Crown Hill]

It looks like all the land mentioned on both sides of Tame Road was purchased in 2018!

[PeterWithe]

  architects at Grimshaw have now been tasked with designing an expansion of the DE 

I hope that's the A level students, if they are just doing it on the O level course it will be shit.

[Percy McCarthy]

  architects at Grimshaw have now been tasked with designing an expansion of the DE 

I hope that's the A level students, if they are just doing it on the O level course it will be shit.

I went to Grimshaw’s sixth form… many times, to get off with the girls and rob the Kit-kat machine.

[London Villan]

I could see the lower being kept, but with a lot of work on the councourses, etc. I'd be amazed if the upper isn't pretty much completely replaced, it has so many problems.

A shell around the north was easier because it had all the old office space that could be repurposed, the DE is all squeezed into the smallest amount of space they could manage. It'll be interesting to see what the plans are for the gantry up there, I can't imagine it not getting a massive upgrade because it's very basic right now.

The stand was a bodge job, built on the cheap. If the land is available it would make sense to rebuild it and increase the capacity from 10500 to closer to 20,000 with modern facilities and premium spaces.