Has planning permission been granted for the cladding of the remainder of the ground. It's just that I was speaking to someone (who should know) last week and he said that it hadn't been approved yet.

Gusts of 70mph recorded this morning in the St Helens area according to local news.

Rogues - the planning permission was granted a few weeks before Christmas. It's on the Council website for you to look at if you care to confirm for yourself.

From the weather station on top of Billing Hill maybe....

Your new stadium is actually quite sheltered, so I strongly doubt that, even if 70mph winds were recorded in the St Helens area, that the stadium saw such.

Did you not think about pulling over?

Just read thru this thread and I have to agree, I'm a little worried that the wind as caused this amount of damage.

I was out in the wind this morning and it was windy But I'm shocked that the stadium has been damaged. What happens if it gets windy while we are in the stadium?

Just hope it's getting sorted.

Wow new year but same old Rogues bull. I heard Wigan were about to be evicted from the DW and forced to play at St Pats car 2nd team pitch .... oh no I just made it up.

I did. With my lights on (including fog lamps) so that I could be seen. I was reminded of 2009 when we had the same kind of weather and I had to do exactly the same thing only I was somewhere near Wigan at the time which made the experience extra scary.

Er, no it's not. At least the south side of it isn't. There is a great big open space from the stadium up to God knows where on the south side. And it's the south side which has suffered damage.

Fog lamps in the rain NO NO NO NO....they just dazzle other road users....called FOG lamps for a reason ya know

Do you know exactly where the damage on he south stand is?

Ahh, they must've knocked down Arnold Clark, and the industrial units then... not to mention the verges all around that industrial estate...

Time to wake up and smell the bacon SaintsFan, Langtree Park is POOR. The mear fact that they realised after the thing was built, that they have to add additional bits, is the first sign. Now the roof falling in, when there's no damage to the industrial units (built out of corrogated steel/alloy)... Regardless of GUST speed, a building should be designed to withstand SUSTAINED wind-speed. If that's what happens at a gust of 60mph (common in the UK) then god knows what would happen if we had a sustained 60mph.

Beaufort Wind Scale Lists 55–63 mph as a "Storm" or "Whole Gale" which is described as: "Trees are broken off or uprooted, saplings bent and deformed. Poorly attached asphalt shingles and shingles in poor condition peel off roofs."

Again, this is SUSTAINED wind-speeds, and not GUSTS.

If they 'should know' then they would know that it has been approved.