As far as the first point is concerned, the upgrades that have been disclosed are nothing new to the fans (With the exceptions of the visuals provided by the architects WCEC of Nottingham) as its long been the plan to upgrade the stadium in phases. Now maybe this isnt specifically to increase the capacity, but with the WC bid underway, it made sense to tie all this together. As for the revenues generated, the amount of this would be dependant on the number of matches played at the lane coupled with the teams which would compete based on the groups produced at the draw. Working on the basis of "Cost effective Football" and at least 1 seeded (read highly rated) within the group, i think that the income could generate ~£1m in ticket sales alone, then you add any corperate availability, additional sponsorship etc this would be additional income into the club which we would normally not see during the off season.
Also the benefits of this happening could be benefitial in the long term. Granted, unless we reach the premiership our own matches are unlikely to fill the ground however after the WC the ground would likely be seen as an international venue and as such with the increase of friendly matches between european countries and especially south american and african countires being played within europe for ease of travel, its not beyond the realm of possability that we could then easily handle such matches and generate even more income into the club.
As for the Build cost of the development, There has never been a better time to carry out the works than right now. The industry is seeing build costs reduced to ~ 75% of there actual value at least compared to those during the contruction boom that has been the previous 5+ years.
Now the figure of £20m is a difficult one to answer. Firstly The club will have a budget to work to anyway, based on available funding (Wether that be monies already available or monies raised is unknown) and works will be designed to suit. Its difficult for me to place an exact value on the works based on what is available, as the drawings are only planning drawings and there are many variables that are unknown for exaple the ground conditions etc. But i would expect that the proposed works to the Kop for example would cost £5-6m ish. The south stand is different simply because of the corporate facilities, and amount of internal space, however i still believe that this could be acheived for ~£10m maybe less. What needs to be made clear is that both propositions seem to be based on extensions rather than complete new stands (Like John Street) and as such, as long as the existing structures can be used as partial footprints we would only be tagging onto them.
Following discussion that have taken place, i know that the development of the Kop is something that will be going ahead regardless of the WC bid. The original proposal was to start the intial background works in January of this year, subject to the clubs position at christmas. The clubs aspirations havent materialised and such the work has been put back, how long for? who knows. It could start in the summer it maybe next year but it will go.
I believe that the individual bids would have needed to be based on full planning approvals. Simply because outline planning approvals are basically the council just saying yes, and the information o submit for outline is extremely basic. A simple drawing of the site area with a coloured line showing where the "Site" would be is pretty much all thats needed for submission along with the relevant paperwork being completed. Our Planning application was full, as was the piggies. Interestingly enough, the last time i searched the SCC website for the applications ours has been there a while. Theres on the other hand wasnt, and the only one of theres that is is for a "Portakabin" style kiosk. hmmmm interesting.
My understanding of the situation was that the bid process was very much like a standard tendering procedure, with the exception of submitting a "Price" along with it. All clubs had to provide the details and approvals to demonstrate that all could be acheived in the time frame given. and all had to meet the criteria set out by the bid committee.
£22m is Strap-ons tagline. Im pretty confident that the build cost of what they are proposing is substantially more. Simply becasue they are planning on development of 3 sides of the ground, leaving the south stand in place and simply renevating it. Its pretty certain that they would expect that the majority of the funding would be expected through grants etc.
Now wether it would be them or us, i believe that there would be a certain value of funds (or a grant) provided by SCC, simply due to the cities bid being in conjunction with SCC, but how much this would be for is anyones guess.
I agree with you completely on this, which is why i think its a bad time for this to be released. Maybe it should have been done behind closed doors if they are adamant its something to persue. However on the subject of funding the legal fees, it would be interesting if this would be the club, or McCabe himself, if its the latter then for me he can fill his boots with this
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I've had Council's trying to get contributions and an S106 signed up on an Outline recently!
