GwladysPhil
Player Valuation: £35m
Sorry mate, I was just having your back!
An extra tier and increasing the capacity by 10k is pie in the sky.
An extra tier and increasing the capacity by 10k is pie in the sky.
Catfish Blues
Player Valuation: £15m
I think the initial build will be 52k, and that's what planning permission will be based around.
But, at the same time, I think they'll be aiming for outline planning permission for an extra 10k, with an outline plan in place to show how that extra capacity can be added to the initial design without compromising any limitations placed on them by the council. It would also have be outlined how the infrastructure for 52k could be expanded by another 10k
TL;DR ?
Get planning permission for 52k, and, at the same time ...
Show plans for expansion ( not in any great detail ) and get an informal, in principle, tick in the box for expansion to 62k
For the avoidance of doubt, I don't expect an extra 10k to come from rail seating.
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
I have no problems them showing pictures that may be subject to change in future but once it looks like newer renders have come out, imho the official sites should be using those. Obviously the club can't be held responsible for 3rd parties using the older shots.
I just don't want anyone mislead or say if a young supporter shows those shots to their mates and then gets shot down. That can happen still, just shouldn't happen on the actual club created website.
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
There is only two levels there mate, ground level contains the lower concourse and the second level exits feed out to the upper concourse.
we can both agree "subject to change"
Catfish Blues
Player Valuation: £15m
Disgruntledgoat
Player Valuation: £50m
As we are going upmarket, no more Scouse Pies, and I want Waitrose to do the wittles.
All washed down with fine selection of craft ales and ciders, at £10 a pint (probably).
You can take my scouse pie from my cold,dead hand.
Catfish Blues
Player Valuation: £15m
If your dead hand has a Goodison scouse pie in it, then it'll be the only part of your body to still be warm.
MickA
Player Valuation: £10m
I think it's pretty obvious now that the St Lukes presentations were for a larger capacity. Early renders and images show the three tiers and the gaps at the sides of the home end that have now disappeared.
Who knows the reason, personally I think it's a shame and while the designs are still to be confirmed we shouldn't be surprised if anything else changes. In the meantime all we can go on is the released images that unfortunately for us not involved in the project show multiple configurations. Work in progress clearly.
BunnerJnr
Player Valuation: £500k
Think Spurs originally got planning for 56k, then upped it twice to get to 61k
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
That is how I remember it, started mid to late 50's and ended up as 62k.
GwladysPhil
Player Valuation: £35m
I've tried telling them this. It was literally a reshuffle in the seating plan wasn't it to increase it by a few hundred?
Some people on here think after submitting planning permission for a 52k stadium, we will somehow increase it by 10k by the time it's built.
Also FYI - my previous gripe is them using their main image of the stadium with the 62k capacity version to try and sell it to us.
RobSpurs
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Pretty much yep, slightly more efficient ways of laying the seating out within the same structure.
Small amendments to the planning permission had to be applied for, but the rises in capacity were so small they weren't a problem. 61k up to 62k over the course of the build.
So, unless something very clever has been cooked up, if you get pp for a 52k stadium, it might end up a bit bigger in the end with that kind of reshuffle, but not 8 or 10k bigger. The real question is, once BMD is built can it be expanded in future, and if so, how.
GwladysPhil
Player Valuation: £35m
They have said a few times the stadium cannot be expanded - which I can see wih the north and south stands, but east and west? Why? They both have a lot of space.
