Very interesting insight, thanks for sharing. Yes it seems we would need to acquire St. Mary’s court, the north east corner of shops and plot 25 on the drawing to even make an alternative feasible. If not for the reasons mentioned, especially cost and ground share then redevelopment of stands is our most appropriate way to go. Still plenty of options for our needs.
15000 capacity stadium at little marginal cost from developing North and East stands on current plot. Room to expand "North Side" to 17500. No need to leave Roots Hall if build in stages. Sun in goalkeepers eyes though, same as at Wembley and Old Trafford:
Anything built pre 2000 can have asbestos or so my wife said, she’s a director there so I assume she knows what’s she’s talking about.
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I can’t understand why we wouldn’t look at all our options under the new leadership. The old girl has served us well but we can all agree it needs a refurb and that could be best achieved by rotating the pitch. Not saying it is the best way but it can’t be ignored as a potential option. The new Spurs stadium and to a lesser degree Wembley both built on original site and adjusted the pitch position. They’ve turned out ok…
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️It's all the rage obviously they've never seen the hundreds of previous episodes of rotate the pitch the never ending story of Roots Hall.
I'm expecting some of the car park to be built on.
You may well be right. I would have thought the logic would be North first. Smallest amount of people in that area currently and area in north west corner condemned. East next, so those fans can be accommodated elsewhere, predominantly west and the would be larger north bank, then west. If you do west first, where do all those people relocate to? Unless it’s not done until next summer?
Depending on what they do - I think sheriff indicated it was possible to either do over the summer break or almost block by block so less people displaced
Imagine the car parking is put on the tiered roofs x3 of new units below them built into the sloping ground finca style and the bottom tier has secure staff and players parking direct access to the ground floor of a new East stand. The whole thing could be attached to the new east stand giving access to it at different levels, the units could include fanzones food , ticketing ,club shop, think outside the box , when it's gone it's gone ! Beer and food festivals , winter Christmas fayres outside ice skating on etc etc
We redeveloped all four sides of Fratton Park across two seasons with minimal loss of capacity. Where there's a will (or a proper seating specialist as opposed to any old backyard builder) there's a way.
I get your point but wouldn’t we save loads by limiting to rotation to 2-3%?
I'm told that tree will be coming down.
Let’s rotate it 180 degrees and then get on with it!
I believe this is still the case.
