Work starting on Revoe Sports Village (incl East Stand)

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Site to be cleared for Blackpool FC scheme including new stand​

The scheme to clear building rubble from a site on the corner of Central Drive and Rigby Road, previously earmarked for housing, is set to cost around £500,000 and will take 12 weeks to complete.
Contractors are due to start work early in June ahead of final plans for the investment on the council owned site being unveiled.

An artist's impression accompanying last May's planning application for the Revoe Sports Village


Coun Mark Smith, cabinet member for business, enterprise and job creation, said: “This site has been eyesore for far too long and I am delighted that work will be starting imminently to remove all the surplus material and spoil.
“We have really exciting plans for the area that we hope to be able to share in the coming months once we have reached a formal agreement with the football club.”
A planning application was submitted last May by the Blackpool FC Community Trust for the Revoe Community Sports Village but no decision was made on it.
It included a full size floodlit 11-a-side grass pitch, three five-a-side 3G pitches, a seven-a-side Cruyff Court for informal football, and a hard surface MUGA (multi use games area).

Also included in the scheme was a pavilion housing changing rooms, a 101 space car park and road improvements.​


The scheme was awarded £6.5m as part of Blackpool's £39.5m Town Deal.
Previous council documents have revealed it is hoped a new 4,600 seater East Stand will be in place by September 2025.
Houses had been due to be built on the land as part of the Foxhall Village, but construction stopped in 2019 when builder Hollinwood Homes collapsed.
Great Places Housing is due to complete other parts of the residential scheme, but the land closest to Blackpool FC's stadium was reallocated to the sports village with the council taking control of the site from the administrators in September 2021.
It has been working with Blackpool Football Club, Blackpool FC Community Sports Trust and the Football Foundation for more than a year to determine the long-term potential of the site.
A council report says: "The ambitions of Blackpool Football Club and the council are aligned in regards to developing the area with a number of community accessible sports pitches together with supporting the club's ambitions for redevelopment of the existing East Stand.

"The council is currently in a period finalising the agreements with Blackpool Football Club in relation to the Towns Fund proposals and are awaiting a final scheme design and a formal planning application to be submitted in due course."​

 
Having been brought up in the squalor of the Scrattin Shed, lived through our times at the foot of the table and league, the disgrace of the Odious ones ( and previous directors), to see what is happening now is little short of miraculous. I do have one concern, though.





What on earth of some of our fans going to have to moan about?
 
Tangerinemoss said:
Having been brought up in the squalor of the Scrattin Shed, lived through our times at the foot of the table and league, the disgrace of the Odious ones ( and previous directors), to see what is happening now is little short of miraculous. I do have one concern, though.





What on earth of some of our fans going to have to moan about?
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Ticket prices, catering, bird shit, kit designs, signings, volume of signings, Jerry Yates, the colour tangerine, Critch's substitution timings, concourses, buying tickets online...

Maybe we can all blindly pick three and have a moaners bingo 😂
 
DonCorleone said:
Ticket prices, catering, bird shit, kit designs, signings, volume of signings, Jerry Yates, the colour tangerine, Critch's substitution timings, concourses, buying tickets online...

Maybe we can all blindly pick three and have a moaners bingo 😂
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No need for this. Someone has already collared the market.
 
Whats in that elongated grey roofed building running parallel to the east stand?
It's not how I imagined the layout for a bigger 7/8,000 seater stand to look like. If the club want to increase capacity then surely it would be different? Surprised the club haven't made a statement.

Looking at those plans there is no room for a bigger stand without a major re-think.
 
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Tangerinemoss said:
Having been brought up in the squalor of the Scrattin Shed, lived through our times at the foot of the table and league, the disgrace of the Odious ones ( and previous directors), to see what is happening now is little short of miraculous. I do have one concern, though.





What on earth of some of our fans going to have to moan about?
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Oh, I’m sure one or two will be busy constructing a controversial response.
 
Tangerinemoss said:
Having been brought up in the squalor of the Scrattin Shed, lived through our times at the foot of the table and league, the disgrace of the Odious ones ( and previous directors), to see what is happening now is little short of miraculous. I do have one concern, though.





What on earth of some of our fans going to have to moan about?
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Don't worry, they'll be fine. Messi is too old for starters.
 
kuriousoranj said:
Whats in that elongated grey roofed building running parallel to the east stand?
It's not how I imagined the layout for a bigger 7/8,000 seater stand to look like. If the club want to increase capacity then surely it would be different? Surprised the club haven't made a statement.

Looking at those plans there is no room for a bigger stand without a major re-think.
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I don't think a hugely increased capacity is realistic in the next 10 years to be honest.

Looking at the image, this would effectively see the existing stadium 'completed' in the round. Simply replacing the 'temporary' East with a properly integrated cantilever-roofed stand will allow proper utilisation of the whole ground. As well as the existing capacity it allows the NE and SE corners to be used to their full as it will remove any obstructions to views (which in itself adds about 1,000 usable seats).

I reckon this takes us up to about an 18,000 capacity. It will be a little while before we outgrow that amount. We seem to have a stable 10,000 home fans per game at present.

IF we ever do need it, I suspect a 2nd tier on the North would be the most feasible avenue of expansion.
 
Tangerinemoss said:
Having been brought up in the squalor of the Scrattin Shed, lived through our times at the foot of the table and league, the disgrace of the Odious ones ( and previous directors), to see what is happening now is little short of miraculous. I do have one concern, though.





What on earth of some of our fans going to have to moan about?
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4,500 seater stand🤔and maybe a bit of an iconic design
 
"Previous council documents have revealed it is hoped a new 4,600 seater East Stand will be in place by September 2025."

Why only 4,600 seats? The east stand now has more seats (5,120)
 
Have all the Central Drive and Henry Street property's been compulsory purchased? I work close to the ground and a lot of them still seem to be occupied.
 
SirHarryThomson said:
Have all the Central Drive and Henry Street property's been compulsory purchased? I work close to the ground and a lot of them still seem to be occupied.
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I'm sure they will be, but the council will want the club fully committed before they do it.

CPO is always a messy business and you don't want to go through it and then end up with the development falling through.
 
Blackpool_Gaz said:
"Previous council documents have revealed it is hoped a new 4,600 seater East Stand will be in place by September 2025."

Why only 4,600 seats? The east stand now has more seats (5,120)
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Cost
Space
Alternative use
Access
Matching the existing designs
Current seating regulations

I'm sure there are lots of factors involved.

4,600 plus the two corners becoming usable. Should be a decent enough size imo.
 
In all seriousness its great this will get moving.

As for the capacity we've had this debate and apparently the size is not finalised and can change.

Ss used a 5k seater stand as an eg in the dialogue.

Don't forget though with the north east corner being aprox 1k, to only build a 4600 east (if that included the ne corner as that's never mentioned as well) then it'd be smaller than the west, which isn't going to happen.

Its pretty simple, if the club uses roof supports the seats can go back further and that with the ne corner can us up to beyond 18k-20k depending on ambition.

Looking as Simons ambition for the training ground the land is huge, the building looks bigger than Fleetwood, I don’t think we'll end up with something crap or smaller than we have.
 
Tangerine Tractor said:
One thing to factor in is that if you go more than 24 rows of seats, then the access can't be at ground level, so you need a deeper stand with stairs, lifts, etc, much more complicated build, much more expensive.
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True, but still even with an east as it is and a 1k ne corner its still then up to 17600 ish.

I personally think he'll want a bit more but whoknows.

You can actually fit more rows within the existing stand size, just needs to go back a bit further.

On that thread La1 did a on why we might be able to to build something decent is interesting.

East Stand: What £15/£20 million can buy.

Given Simon Sadler confirmed he plans on spending approximately £30 million of his own money on the training ground and East stand and indicated that even the most basic 5000 seat stand would cost £15 million it’s safe to say the budget for the East is between £15 and £20 million (this also ties...
avftt.co.uk
 
That’s NOT the plan for the East stand. That’s simply the outline document used to source funding for enabling the project. That submission was made by the council and as the funding cannot be used to support a commercial business they can’t suggest the money was going to allow the club to build anything bigger than what they currently have. The club are working on their plans as we speak though. Take the artists impressions for the stadium itself and the associated capacity figures with a pinch of salt.

*also note the artists impressions are purely a mirror of the North and West stands. The South East corner is square and the roof much different in the corner.
 
LA1 Seasider said:
That’s NOT the plan for the East stand. That’s simply the outline document used to source funding for enabling the project. That submission was made by the council and as the funding cannot be used to support a commercial business they can’t suggest the money was going to allow the club to build anything bigger than what they currently have. The club are working on their plans as we speak though. Take the artists impressions for the stadium itself and the associated capacity figures with a pinch of salt.

*also note the artists impressions are purely a mirror of the North and West stands. The South East corner is square and the roof much different in the corner.
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No, surely this means the hotel is being knocked down, the drawing doesn't lie... 🤔
 
Could there be any possibility of the stand including safe standing?

4,600 doesn’t seem a lot but one thing I would do is trust SS and if it is that size then there must be a good reason for it.
 
WLDTangerine said:
Could there be any possibility of the stand including safe standing?

4,600 doesn’t seem a lot but one thing I would do is trust SS and if it is that size then there must be a good reason for it.
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Read above, nothing finalised from the club yet.
 
GeminiPool said:
I'm sure they will be, but the council will want the club fully committed before they do it.

CPO is always a messy business and you don't want to go through it and then end up with the development falling through.
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the council will want to make sure the club is fully committed... surely the other way round
 
Will it not mirror the West ? if so how many seats in the West ?
 
kuriousoranj said:
Whats in that elongated grey roofed building running parallel to the east stand?
It's not how I imagined the layout for a bigger 7/8,000 seater stand to look like. If the club want to increase capacity then surely it would be different? Surprised the club haven't made a statement.

Looking at those plans there is no room for a bigger stand without a major re-think.
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It is not going to be a 7/8000 seater stand…
 
Glad things are moving, I really don't have any moans about what our club decides to do, as after the lies & false promises of the past lot, at least we now have an owner who cares.👍👍👍

Had to laugh at the images in the glossy brochure (normal looking people) where's all the druggies, chav's & generally flabby to enormous holiday makers.
 
Sooty59 said:
Glad things are moving, I really don't have any moans about what our club decides to do, as after the lies & false promises of the past lot, at least we now have an owner who cares.👍👍👍

Had to laugh at the images in the glossy brochure (normal looking people) where's all the druggies, chav's & generally flabby to enormous holiday makers.
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They're all working out in the sports village 👍
 
Rock and Roll Star said:
It is not going to be a 7/8000 seater stand…
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But most on here were talking about a 20k capacity so it would need to be at least 7K? It would need to be on a similar scale to the stand they have at Crewe, maybe a bit longer. Add a NE corner and that would give you 20K plus.
 

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