The proposed solution looks far smarter than at present and will improve the overall look of the stadium, however it wont make the stadium weather proof, it will merely make it more weather resistant. I think its a good compromise as it will ensure the concourses get a lot of natural light and air, which will be nice in good weather, while minimising the negative effects of rain and wind. Looking at the proposed plans the proposed cladding is Kalzip which is made by Corus in Haydock, so nice to see that local firm looks like will benefit. Also the glass fitted is Solar Glass which is again a Pilkington product. If you want to get an idea of the new cladding then this is the Kalzip brochure. www.kalzip.com/PDF/uk/perforated ... review.pdf I think the final look will be of a giant cheese grater. If so i propose we become the British Cheese Heads.

The proposed solution looks far smarter than at present and will improve the overall look of the stadium, however it wont make the stadium weather proof, it will merely make it more weather resistant. I think its a good compromise as it will ensure the concourses get a lot of natural light and air, which will be nice in good weather, while minimising the negative effects of rain and wind. Looking at the proposed plans the proposed cladding is Kalzip which is made by Corus in Haydock, so nice to see that local firm looks like will benefit. Also the glass fitted is Solar Glass which is again a Pilkington product. If you want to get an idea of the new cladding then this is the Kalzip brochure. www.kalzip.com/PDF/uk/perforated ... review.pdf I think the final look will be of a giant cheese grater. If so i propose we become the British Cheese Heads.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Cladtastic!

Its basically all the areas that are currently not cladded.

For all those that haven't seen them on RedVee...

Oh and...

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Bumper set of pictures from the home of the english Cheese Heads. These include some internal shots taken by a kind workman.

South East corner showing the concrete footpath, bollards and also tree planting



The south stand pavement/road





They have also now completed all the red cladding on the South stand main frontage.



The "Stairway to Heaven" showing bollards fitted on Warrington road and also tree planting



East stand, and car park. Note the doors have now been fitted to the exits





A scoreboard but not a big screen has been fitted



Doors have also been fitted to the North and West stands. An external Tannoy system has also been fitted.
A nice touch is that the tarmac pavement round the stadium is RED.











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Part 2

The view from the link road showing the Petrol filling station in the foreground



The view from the Renault garage



landscaping work is continuing on the Tesco side and it looks like there will be a lot of grass and trees around the site.





you can see in this pic rolls of grass about to be laid on the outer perimeter of the site




This pic shows the east stand posts. In the distance you can also see the press box on the backrow of seats just below the executive box seating.



This pic of the West stand "H" will no doubt set your pulse racing.
From looking at pics from Knowsley road, these appear to be a new set of posts. The old ones for example had a coloured cross bar.
Its also good to see they are a sizeable height, unlike those stunted posts at Widnes.



Now if that pic has got you excited, a workman onsite offered to take pics inside for me and Saints_Crusader from Redvee.
Here are the pics he took on my camera.

Notice the sizeable grass run offs outside the touchline and also behind the tryline. This should help protect the players from impacting into perimeter adverts and the stands themselves. Unlike at say the undersized, built for soccer DW stadium.





Finally when talking to the builders, they said there was absolutely no chance the stadium will be complete for the 24th October handover as originally planned. They were saying it could be the end of November or early December before work is complete. Any delay will of course incur large penalty fines from Saints. It would not surprise me if this will pay for the cladding.

On the subject of the cladding going on the West, East and North stands, here are a couple of pics showing the nature of the possible cladding, and also how it may look when fitted.

You often see perforated cladding on multi storey car parks.





Some more pics showing perforated cladding



This one in paritcular shows a duel colour perforated solution, which gives an impression of the possible look of the new cladding on the North stand

Looks brilliant, can't wait for our visit. Good to see the terracing. Where will the away speccies be allocated.

On the east terrace

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I think the official website needs to appoint The Chair Maker as their official group photographer, they are much better! well done.

I might be being naive here, but if the point of the new cladding is to make the concourses more sheltered then what's the point of putting up stuff that's full of holes exactly? Might as well use the money to build another statue...

You've never had a gortex jacket? thats full of holes and breathable

I think a good number of the "claddinggate" complaints were down to the stadium [ulooking[/u unfinished and so from an aesthetic point of view the semi-permiable cladding will do the job nicely.

Also, as is stated in the design & access statement of the planning application for the new cladding, a "full sheet" cladding solution would not have been possible due to the structure not being able to support the increased wind resistance it would generate. Effectively, solid cladding would have acted like a sail and caught all the wind and place excessive stress on the stadium structure which would presumably, given severe enough conditions, have tore the stadium to pieces.

Looks like it's going to be absolutely fantastic, very jealous!

You've got the DFS don't worry.

To make the Pies feel at home, they will be accomodated behind the soccer posts

Sammy Hills scrapyard, pays more than lead, so I'm led to believe

From reading the design statement, it would appear that the Club is taking the view that had the concourses remained uncladded, fans would have been exposed to the elements while ambling around the stadium, which is a bit of a bad idea really. I can't quite understand why that didn't occur to whoever designed the stadium in the first place? Still, it looks like Saints are putting it right and hopefully the aesthetic issue and the practical one will be resolved by this fancy sounding holey cladding.

(And I notice that the West Stand is included in the new cladding proposals too!)

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Amazing pictures ! Maybe I will travel next year in UK to watch a Catalan game against mighty Saints !

Simply awesome. But geez it's bright. We'll be banned from playing after dark now because of those lights. Mate of mine reckons you can see the glow from the M62, but I reckon he's a fibber.

Must admit that I'm a bit puzzled as well by the hole cladding idea (no pun intended).