There have been lots of posts suggesting that we can't redevelop goodison. I haven't quoted them all. But the suggestions that Goodison is landlocked etc and therefore can't be redeveloped are untrue. For a start we could build as big a stand as we wanted at the Park End (and that would just be a quick fix). There are actually many approaches we could take to redevelop it to provide both the increased capacity and corporate facilities.
Also, rather than seeing Goodisons age and condition as a burden, we should be playing on the fact that Goodison was the first purpose built football ground in the country, and has stands designed by Archibald Leitch.
I'll quote myself from the stadium thread where I discussed *one* of the approaches we could take. (Note there are many other ways this could be tackled... I just favoured this approach because it didn't require any land take)
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/...ate-within-months.66451/page-238#post-3361137
"When the main stand was built in 1970 they did it in such a way that would help future re-developments. That is why it doesn't line up with the pitch. The general idea would be:
1) Knock down the Park End
2) Move the pitch (towards the Park End) to be inline with the main stand (thus creating room at the Street End...)
3) Build a massive new Park End Stand with executive boxes. (Bear in mind that the Holte End at Villa has a seated capacity of > 13,000)
4) Knock down the Street End and build a new stand taking advantage of the increased space resulting from the pitch move. This would then solve the "church problem" - ie we wouldn't lose so much capacity from the space caused by the church.
5) Re-configure the main stand as follows:
5a) Build a new roof as per the original plans that doesn't need the big posts at the front (thus getting rid of most of the obstructed views)
5b) Add an executive tier below the top balcony (which gets rid of the rest of the obstructed views)
5c) Get rid of the existing lean-to executive boxes at the front and hence "re-claim" all of the enclosure
The above plan gives us new Park and Street End stands, a reconfigured main stand with no obstructed views, increased capacity, and a significant increase in our corporate capacity, without any need to land take.
The only remaining un-developed stand would be the Bullens road, which in the short term could (and should!) be kept as a heritage Archibald Leitch football stand. Again as mentioned earlier in the thread we could take off the iron-cladding and re-point the brickwork to show it off for the treasure that it is.
Ideas do exist for developing the Bullens Road, but of course this would require land take and re-locating the school, or including it in the new structure.
This is only one version of the Goodison redevelopment options available to us, but they just happen to be the ones that appeal to me. When I find the time I will upload the documents I have which show these plans in more detail."
