Quote ="The Avenger"I’m sure that’s as close to 100% correct as we’ll ever get, at least until ME tests it out for real.
I have one question though regarding capacity
The old stand sat central to the pitch, maybe covering 50 metres (25m either side of the half way line.
Let’s say that stand or a modern stand of similar size would hold 2,000 spectators. Thats the equivalent of 1000 spectators for every 25m. A RL pitch runs 100m with an extra 20 metres either end of the terracing = 120 metres.
That ratio would equal 4,800 spectators on the West side of the stadium should we want to?'"
That’s not the problem unfortunately. The planners will base everything on current usage. They will do so based on the fact that for the last 35 years 3000 people or whatever the actual capacity is have successfully used the west terrace without incident. The residents cannot complain about the noise or access issues because that precedent has been set. You up that figure above what it is now and you give them room to object, and there is bound to be at least one. At that point the planners will be obliged to dig much deep, and it’s there that the planners may get nervous and turn us down. At the very least it could hold the project up for years.
Its a bit like what they call a ransom strip. Current capacity and we can simply modernise with limited objections. Go higher and you’re in the realms of maybe it will happen maybe it won’t.
For me it’s not worth the risk especially as we have the south of the ground free to be redeveloped should we need to. At a quick tally the 3000 west with an upped 4500 north and the 2600 east and finally 500 with some added seats at the front of the boxes gives us roughly 10600, and that imho would do us for the foreseeable future. Should we do the south later that would be more like 14000. With the best will in the world we are very unlikely to need that capacity very often.
HTH
