Quote: nick hkr "I visited Fev not so long back and saw the plans for the stadium development which IMO are not very good.
They are selling off some land behind the sticks at Post Office Road end which is going to become a housing development. The pitch is going to be moved towards the railway end without moving the current stands and facilities. They have bought two stands from Scarborough AFC and these are being errected to boost the capacity..'"
The Family Stand is modular and will be shunted along so that it is more or less in the same position relative to the pitch as now.
The existing main stand/dressing rooms etc will stay as they are but the sponsors lounge will then overlook the halfway line giving improved corporate facilities.
Ground capacity won't be much greater than now but can be easily increased by the installation of extra crash barriers in the standing area.
And I believe that the plans have been modified so that the housing will now be at the railway end.
Quote: nick hkr "
....these funds that they are spending may have been better spent placing a state of the art single stand at one end of the pitch with the other end being a newly built concrete stepped area as it is now but with the view of improving that end once further finances become available. '"
The cost of the second hand stands (+moving and errecting them) is considerably cheaper than a single new one and means that the club can afford to make serious improvements to the ground and make it virtually all seater.
Quote: nick hkr "
I obviously do not know the ins and outs of it all.....'"
Obviously not.
