' More pics of CCFC Extension Plans '

After Risca's post earlier, thought I'd share all the pics:

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Looking good, just hope we stay in the premier league

Why does the first picture have our old, old crest on the wall?!

Why does the first picture have our old, old crest on the wall?!

I was thinking this!
Maybe they have used old plans?

' An old write up on the plans '

Cardiff City could see stadium expanded to 35,000 seats by 2014/5 season

Club owner Vincent Tan promised a stadium expansion as part of his plans to develop the club. Now club director Steve Borley says this could be done by season after next.

Capacity at the Cardiff City Stadium could be expanded to 35,000 in time for the start of the 2014/15 season, according to a club director.

Steve Borley also confirmed the Bluebirds would not stage any matches at the 74,000-seater Millennium Stadium in their first year of Premier League action.

Last June, the club’s billionaire Malaysian owner, Vincent Tan, promised a stadium expansion as part of the controversial blue-to-red rebranding.

In a statement outlining how his £100m investment would be spent, Mr Tan earmarked £12m to increase the stadium’s capacity by an extra 8,000 seats.

Mr Borley, managing director of CMB Engineering, said an expansion would be too early for the coming 2013/14 season as procurement would take “the best part of a year”.

As construction would involve temporarily removing the ground’s roof, it could only take place during the close season, he said.

“We’ve never been presumptuous about our promotion. As a club it was case of getting it done first and then worry about the other bits later,” Mr Borley said.

“It’s a pleasant problem to be looking at and it’s something that will be high on the agenda, but my guess is that it would be very much for next season.

“I would say we start planning it for the 2014/15 season.”

He described the expansion as “basically a Meccano job” in which the roof would be taken off to allow pre-fabricated steelwork and pre-cast concrete seating units to be “dropped in”.

“That would take it to roughly 35,000. You can’t design to a seat number, it’s whatever the geometry allows,” Mr Borley said.

“Originally the stadium was designed for 30,000 to 32,000 but we’ve checked our calculations and reckon we could get it up to around 35,000.

“The last time we were in the equivalent of the Premier League our average attendance was 46,000 and there were games at the old Ninian Park where there was 55,000 and 60,000.”

A rudimentary calculation shows that, based on an average ticket price of £25, the additional seats would be worth an extra £3.8m over 19 home league games.

The club is already expecting to see its income quadruple to £80m as a result of promotion.

Any expansion would first require planning permission from Cardiff council.

But Mr Borley ruled out staging any Premier League matches at the Millennium Stadium as Premier League rules don’t allow clubs to “chop and change” their home ground.

He also said the Millennium Stadium pitch “would not last a month in the Premier League”.

“The most important thing to our team is the surface. Our surface is like a bowling green,” Mr Borley said.

“It would be nice to think about it (as a one-off), but at the end of the day when you are in the Premier League you want your home to be a fortress and that will determine your survival.”

Any switch of venue, even for a single match, would require approval from the Premier League’s board of directors.

Earlier this month, rivals Swansea City submitted plans to increase capacity at Liberty Stadium from 22,500 to about 33,000. If given the go-ahead by Swansea council, work will be carried out over three phases.

Sam Hammams original design:
Looked a beast!

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im going to be busy for some time

The head on shot reminds me a bit of the stand at stamford bridge with the considerably lower stands either side and a 3 tier looking stand with a premium section.

Looking good, Just hope we can retain Premier League status and have a full stadium every week

Looks amazing

You just know that the seats are going to be red though.

im going to be busy for some time

wind has never played a factor in our stadium atm but with that design swirling wind is now going to be a factor

Sam Hammams original design:
Looked a beast!

Looks like Man City's

Looks amazing

You just know that the seats are going to be red though.

Gonna look so bad with red

Looks amazing

You just know that the seats are going to be red though.

Gonna look so bad with red

I know, no doubt there are plans to change the whole stadium to red eventually

Looks amazing

You just know that the seats are going to be red though.

Gonna look so bad with red

They will change the current Premier Seating seats to red so each side will look similar. Give it a bit more character than the bland single colour seating at most stadia. Even if those colours are red and blue instead of blue, white and yellow.

Looks amazing

You just know that the seats are going to be red though.

Gonna look so bad with red

They will change the current Premier Seating seats to red so each side will look similar. Give it a bit more character than the bland single colour seating at most stadia. Even if those colours are red and blue instead of blue, white and yellow.

Is this actually happening or just what you think will happen?

It will look incredbily messy either way unless they change the whole stadium or mix it up like at Crystal Palace

Will look incredible once done