cormacshaw

@BTH wrote:

Any future extension of seating upwards at the Havelock Square end would entail the removal of the ENTIRE roof structure of the stadium (and thus the entire external cladding since it all hangs from the main roof structure) given that the primary trusses rest upon the two large and rather unsightly concrete pillars which are only about ten rows back from the edge of the pitch.

Is this correct? I am no engineer/architect but it appears to me that the roof/wall behind the north stand and between the two concrete trusses does not provide any significant support to the roof over the two long sides. If that assumption is true, would it not be possible to build a large stand as wide as the pitch between the two trusses (perhaps a large single tier like the Anfield ‘kop’). Obviously, the design of such a stand’s roof, cladding and the north end’s corners would have to deal with blending into or intersecting the rest of the stadium but I am sure that is within the capabilities of stadium architects. I’d also think this could be done with the stadium remaining in use, depending on how much land to the north of the site that was actually acquired.