| Redeveloping Loftus Road 15:53 - Jul 8 with 9849 views | BAWHoops |
I know, I know... this old chestnut again.
But is there no way whatsoever that we can't knock down the stands we have and rebuild them in some capacity to create a more modern and larger stadium?
We seem to want to move to a new location to build a 30k seater stadium, but isn't there something to be said for redeveloping LR to 20-25k instead?
I am aware you would have to dig down to lower the whole thing in order to increase the size |  |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 16:01 - Jul 8 with 5915 views | LowerloftLad |
the only possible changes we will see at loftus road now are
1) changing/moving of the family stand
2) the lower loft becoming safe standing [Post edited 8 Jul 2020 16:01]
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 16:02 - Jul 8 with 5902 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Can't be done.
If you dig down you would still have to move the stands back, which can't be done.
With FFP, the lack of corporate income on match and non-match days is killing us. |  |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 16:09 - Jul 8 with 5870 views | kensalriser |
Shoot me now please. |  |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 16:21 - Jul 8 with 5824 views | Konk |
Something like Boa Vista's ground might work... |  |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 16:29 - Jul 8 with 5780 views | stowmarketrange |
It would only take one of the many hundreds of residents to lodge a complaint about noise,disruption or loss of light in their gardens to drag it out for years.
The only option would be to buy all the houses on the stadium side of Ellerslie and Loftus Roads,and demolish them.So how many millions would that cost before we even start thinking about rebuilding.
Then you’d have the residents on the other side of those roads who might lodge an appeal too.Its a non starter. [Post edited 8 Jul 2020 16:29]
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 16:36 - Jul 8 with 5743 views | FrankRightguard |
No chance. |  | | |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 16:40 - Jul 8 with 5720 views | loftboy |
Want there talk once about extending SA road stand over the road by making it into a tunnel? |  |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 16:44 - Jul 8 with 5702 views | peejaybee |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 17:27 - Jul 8 with 5607 views | francisbowles |
Isn't there something about one of London's old submerged river runs near or even under the stadium? |  | | |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 17:30 - Jul 8 with 5600 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 17:27 - Jul 8 by francisbowles |
Isn't there something about one of London's old submerged river runs near or even under the stadium? |
Multi-purpose stadium?
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 17:42 - Jul 8 with 5562 views | Juzzie |
Answer to the OP.... No.
How can we redevelop an 18k stadium to a 25k stadium on the same footprint in accordance with the Taylor Report? It's not the TARDIS.
This has been covered so many times and it's still no. The costs and work involved is massive.
I hear people say "we could just buy up the Ellerslie Road houses, knock them down and build a bigger stand" as though it's really easy to somehow get 150-200 flats bought up unless we pay massively over the market price which means that alone would be nigh on £75 million before the wrecking ball has even moved in.
It's not possible to redevelop Loftus Road to any extent. End of.
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 17:47 - Jul 8 with 5545 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 17:42 - Jul 8 by Juzzie |
Answer to the OP.... No.
How can we redevelop an 18k stadium to a 25k stadium on the same footprint in accordance with the Taylor Report? It's not the TARDIS.
This has been covered so many times and it's still no. The costs and work involved is massive.
I hear people say "we could just buy up the Ellerslie Road houses, knock them down and build a bigger stand" as though it's really easy to somehow get 150-200 flats bought up unless we pay massively over the market price which means that alone would be nigh on £75 million before the wrecking ball has even moved in.
It's not possible to redevelop Loftus Road to any extent. End of.
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 18:02 - Jul 8 with 5505 views | TacticalR |
Could luxury executive hammocks be slung across the pitch from the roofs of the stands? The only drawback being you would have to watch the game face down. |  |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 18:12 - Jul 8 with 5488 views | Boston |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 16:40 - Jul 8 by loftboy |
Want there talk once about extending SA road stand over the road by making it into a tunnel? |
That was me, I’d been drinking. | |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 20:26 - Jul 8 with 5279 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Knowing our luck, skylarks would suddenly uproot from their native nesting areas in Ealing to take up residency in W12. |  |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 20:33 - Jul 8 with 5255 views | MickS |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 18:02 - Jul 8 by TacticalR |
Could luxury executive hammocks be slung across the pitch from the roofs of the stands? The only drawback being you would have to watch the game face down. |
Dribbling on your own people. Not happening. | | | |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 20:38 - Jul 8 with 5240 views | LunarJetman |
The biggest mistake the club made in the last 50+ years was not buying the land the school is on when offered it. If we’d done that expansion plans would look so different... |  | | |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 20:46 - Jul 8 with 5216 views | slmrstid |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 20:38 - Jul 8 by LunarJetman |
The biggest mistake the club made in the last 50+ years was not buying the land the school is on when offered it. If we’d done that expansion plans would look so different... |
I see the stuff with the School End land talked about so much but I must confess I dont quite understand it - what was so special about that land that could have made LR radically different or bigger? Because width ways we're still hemmed in by Ellerslie Road and South Africa Road, so surely all that could have been done then is to have had a bigger School End?
Is there something I'm missing there? Genuinely curious! |  | | |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 20:47 - Jul 8 with 5206 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 20:46 - Jul 8 by slmrstid |
I see the stuff with the School End land talked about so much but I must confess I dont quite understand it - what was so special about that land that could have made LR radically different or bigger? Because width ways we're still hemmed in by Ellerslie Road and South Africa Road, so surely all that could have been done then is to have had a bigger School End?
Is there something I'm missing there? Genuinely curious! |
I was going to ask the same question. Not being negative, just curious. | |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 20:51 - Jul 8 with 5187 views | BostonR |
Just not an option moving forward. It will have to be a new site, hopefully Linford Christy site. That might get some traction but funding could be a challenge post-Covid.
Might be an opportune time to push in that direction given the opportunities and jobs that could bring. |  | | |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 08:48 - Jul 9 with 4955 views | RangersDave |
buying the school end would have allowed the whole stadium to be rebuilt and including 2 large multi tiered ends (ooer missus), if you were then allowed to build out over SAR then that stand could also have its capacity increased.
Mind you, 'if' we had purchased the school end, we could have also purchased 2 or 3 houses Elerslie side and boarded them up. Prices would lower as peeps would sell up to get out, and for the rest we just send the boys in! Sorted!!! |  |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 09:30 - Jul 9 with 4877 views | Newhopphoops |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 08:48 - Jul 9 by RangersDave |
buying the school end would have allowed the whole stadium to be rebuilt and including 2 large multi tiered ends (ooer missus), if you were then allowed to build out over SAR then that stand could also have its capacity increased.
Mind you, 'if' we had purchased the school end, we could have also purchased 2 or 3 houses Elerslie side and boarded them up. Prices would lower as peeps would sell up to get out, and for the rest we just send the boys in! Sorted!!! |
"Mind you, 'if' we had purchased the school end, we could have also purchased 2 or 3 houses Elerslie side and boarded them up. Prices would lower as peeps would sell up to get out, and for the rest we just send the boys in! Sorted!!"
That's the Liverpool model. Nice club.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/78yj9e/why-liverpool-let-its-neighborhood-go- |  | | |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 09:45 - Jul 9 with 4835 views | QPR_Jim |
If we had bought the land presumably that would have included the school and the houses behind the school too. If we had that land you'd only need about 10 houses along Ellerslie Rd between the School End entrance and the Ellerslie Rd entrance to create a footprint big enough for a new stadium. |  | | |
| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 09:47 - Jul 9 with 4830 views | RangersDave |
Indeed, but now the deed is done, the scousers dont care and in fact i dont remember any uprising about the situation. And lets face it, a lot of the area around Anfield is still pretty crap, but peeps arent complaining about that either. League champions etc you know. | |
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| Redeveloping Loftus Road on 10:11 - Jul 9 with 4770 views | CamberleyR |
In answer to the OP, as the club have stated themselves, if any of the existing stands were knocked down to be rebuilt, they would have to meet modern ground regulations/building regulations which means providing more space within the stand. The current stands if rebuilt would have a combined capacity of 12000 at the most optimistic.
It cannot be redeveloped. |  |
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