New Everton Stadium

[chippy1722]

Welcome to the Everton Toyota Water polo stadium

To be fair with the people we employ on every other aspect of the club, It wouldn’t surprise me if our ground ends up back under water.

 

[phil_t98]

Sorry for the camera wobble on north stand shot, low flying helicopter but didn’t manage to get in shot.

Some stunning views in the video though because of the low sun

 

[tr_efc]

I am quite honestly shocked and disgusted at the attitude of "blues" towards disabled evertonians. You need to take a long hard look at yourself laughing at my comments about disabled fans.

@tr_efc @anton66 I'm looking at you.

Think I’m one of the few that’s actually happy with the capacity of the new stadium. Once the ‘last season at Goodison’ and ‘first season at BMD’ wears off, accompanied with £1,000 season tickets, I think the demand will drop magnificently.

Yes, there’s 30,000 on the waiting list, but how many of those have the ability to pay for a season ticket when offered the chance? I don’t think it’s that many to be honest. 53,000 is perfect for now, especially whilst we’re not very good at football.

 

[tr_efc]

I'm shocked and disgusted that people think it's ok to do the bare minimum towards disabled fans and think it's ok that if demand isn't there to convert it to "normal seats" because essentially that's what you are saying.

Disabled fans have just as much right to go to the game as anyone else and there is currently a waiting list for wheelchair spaces. So demand is there.

But that aside, trying to take the space back off disabled fans because somehow people think other fans have more of a priority is well.. wow.

Are you on the wind up or not? I don’t think anyone has ever mentioned about trying to increase the capacity through reducing disabled supporters’ sections. No one in the right mind would suggest such a disgusting thing. But, then again, if you are on the wind up then you’ve caught yourself a big one here.

 

[Tom Hughes]

We'll see. I literally phoned up my old man (ex director of building control in local authorities ; see previous). I was surprised by his "NO" (emphatic) about the safe standing

He started quoting post Hillsborough to me (he was in local gov back then). They will want lots of evidence to show that the club can control fans and keep them safe, if they allow greater than 1:1

The local authorities and emergency services have a lot of say on the safety certificate and the licencing of the ground and SGSA issue guidance.

Thats why I think 1.5 won't be granted based on what @Tom Hughes highlighted. It'll be 1.3:1

They will always go with the safest most conservative, option in terms of it and Tom in his post highlighted the technical points versus the green book.

When the club first announced the 53k capacity, there was a bit of an outcry. After all, one of the outcomes from the previous consultation process had been an overwhelming support for the 60k+ option. The club's immediate response was to promote the idea that safe-standing would make-up any shortfall, and I think most people were appeased at that time. However, as more information came out, we could see that the chosen treads for the proposed safe-standing were not as big as originally shown... and were just the standard 750mm. This was the absolute bare minimum for any increased ratio (if legislation changed). So I asked the question of why the bare minimum tread was chosen at the following Shareholder's meeting. Colin Chong back-tracked by saying that it was felt that there will never be an increased ratio, so they went with the standard tread. He then stated that he thought any future capacity expansion would take place on the sides, with a more lenient planning process for an established stadium.

Some people have since posted some good photos of the lower section that show clearly that they have not gone with the thin German style rail seats, with the upright rails and lock-up seats all within a 50mm depth. The ones we have gone for have cranked rail supports, with the much deeper seat and hinge arrangement, leaving far less space for standing and clearway per row. Ofcourse the thinner German style rail seats (and second step) can be retrofitted later, but if Colin Chong is right (maybe he was just defending the decision or is more privy to the conclusions from the safe-standing experiment that's been taking place), then safe-standing will never yield any new capacity. Hopefully, he is mistaken.

 

[Drico]

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I've got to say, as an Irish Evertonian, that there is something deeply evocative for me about the Everton Stadium overlooking the Mersey as it wends its way to the Irish Sea. The connections between the city of Liverpool and Ireland, and between Everton and Ireland are time-honoured, but I find the location of our new home symbolically deepens those ties. And, of course, it's just a wonderful setting in its own right.

 

[Drico]

Another joy of the new stadium is how it doesn't turn its back on the river. This is a common error of many construction projects on waterfronts, but the steps to the lock on the riverside help the stadium to embrace the Mersey.

 

[Dr Baxter]

Another joy of the new stadium is how it doesn't turn its back on the river. This is a common error of many construction projects on waterfronts, but the steps to the lock on the riverside help the stadium to embrace the Mersey.

It's an absolutely amazing stadium. We are lucky to be moving into such a wonderful new home.

 

[Lapeno77]

It's an absolutely amazing stadium. We are lucky to be moving into such a wonderful new home.

No, we don't do positivity round these parts, not what we're about.

Don't come back til you've found something you dislike about it.

 

[Dutch Toffee]

Can't wait to see it with my own eyes. Hopefully over for the Forest home game in December. My (probable) farewell visit to Goodison Park. Although that will be a sad feeling, I'm ready to embrace our new future home. It looks absolutely amazing.

 

[WelshBlue92]

Another joy of the new stadium is how it doesn't turn its back on the river. This is a common error of many construction projects on waterfronts, but the steps to the lock on the riverside help the stadium to embrace the Mersey.

One of the better design changes from the initial draft was adding those steps in place of the larger box section jutting out.

 

[mightyblues78]

Been told there is only 7k with 23 years or more wonder how true that is

 

[mightyblues78]

And exactly why is the fact my dad is disabled and we had a season ticket for 10 years funny?

I took it to account that you had a season ticket for ten years and now don't. I apologize

 

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