In fairness to Peter I did ask for a guess!
Thanks, as it happens, it's not a guess.
But without the £300 million purchase debt and rolled up interest hanging around our necks - allowing us to borrow the money for redevelopment as most businesses would do???
Funding has never been the issue for a financially feasible scheme, whether in one lump or nineteen. Bang for buck is what's at stake. Equating capital value on the basis of revenue between stadiums in Liverpool and London is just daft.
Thanks, if we decided on phased redevelopment now say aiming toward new AR end and Main stand and major work on Kemlyn is there not a a stage when inspectors say something along the lines of, this is basically a new stadium so it must conform to all new standards even on parts that aren't 'worked' on?
Sorry if its a silly question, but in my trade, Gas engineer, works over certain conditions means the entire system must be updated to new regs.
It’s the same. If you change something you must comply with the new regs. If you don’t it’s ok.
Say, if you trash the existing fire exits (or double the numbers going through them), the new ones (or the upgraded old ones) must comply with new regs. But if you provide extra exits to cater for the doubling of numbers that’s ok - provided you don’t affect how the existing ones work and the new work complies. If you start mixing the two, it would be a bit of a mess.
Seat legroom and sightline 'recommendations' are, at least in part, to discourage standing up in seated areas (which, it can be argued, is more dangerous than standing in standing areas!). If whatever change you make further encourages standing up, you would no doubt need to comply with new regs to put it back 'as you were'.
It's why bigger isnt exacly better, The bigger the Kop is the taller/deeper its going to be, so you that will either effect how the roof sits above it or what views people are going to have at the back of the stand
I think anyway
Clearly the seats at the back have the same relationship to the roof at the back no matter what the height of the stand is. However and as you say, what they see depends on what level the front edge is at. Breaking it into tiers only makes it that much higher and reduces the view at the back for a given level of front edge. If the front edge is raised for a better view, there’s less ‘funnelling’ of the noise (and people get wetter)
I’m told that the old Kop was pretty good acoustically. It had a big, high, single, volume with a lower leading edge at the front and that a tier would break up the volume and the noise on the pitch would be more reliant on direct sound and less on the ‘amplification’ effect of sound bouncing off the roof.
I suspect the relative effects are not as big as people think but certainly breaking the kop up with tiers would make it harder to get things going or stay in time/tune.
