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When are we likely to get definitive stadium news?

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More infor from the Echo.

 

Liverpool are confident their proposed £60million Anfield expansion will be complete by the summer of 2022.

The Premier League leaders are aiming to build on their current framework to take the capacity past the 60,000 mark over the next two-and-a-half years.

The second stage of the Reds' public consultation started on Wednesday with local residents once more invited to share their thoughts on the expanding of the iconic stadium.

Over 800 responses were received from the first round of consultations last year, with more than 90 per cent of those attending in favour of the proposals to stretch the ground's total capacity to 61,000.

A series of drop-in events will now be set up at The Kop Bar as the club aim to gather more information from locals before proceeding with the next steps.

The first of the public drop-in events will be held from midday-8pm on Wednesday before a second takes place between 4pm-8pm on Thursday.

 

A pop-up information stand will also be visible at Anfield ahead of the visit from West Ham United on Monday February 24 and the club are hoping to hear more positive feedback.

Around 7,000 additional seats are wanted with the majority to be sold as general admission.

An outline of the number of those seats within the stand would be 5200, with around 1800 lounge and sports-bar style hospitality.

That means the Anfield Road's potential upgrade to 16,000 will be bigger than the Kop's current capacity by a third, taking the ground's total up to 61,000, making it the third highest in the top flight behind Manchester United and Tottenham.

Once the second stage of the consultation has been completed and feedback has been assessed, the submission of a planning application will be presented to Liverpool City Council in the spring.

 

Should all run smoothly, Liverpool are hopeful that construction can commence towards the end of the year, and the club feel they are on course to complete the work alongside London architecture firm KSS before the start of the 2022/23 campaign.

Liverpool's chief operating officer, Andy Hughes, said: "There are still some really big steps to get through.

"This consultation is a really important process and I think we’ve demonstrated that through the first round; there have been some concerns raised and we’ve relooked at the design and we need to go through that process again through this second round.

"Planning is a really big hurdle for us and we’ll be working really heavily on that through the next four, five or six months.

"And ultimately, the finances need to make sense in terms of the build cost when we finally understand that and the schedule.

 

"I think it’s a bit early to say it’s definitely summer 2022 but, assuming everything goes to plan and there are no major hurdles on the way, then that is our target date."

The ECHO understands a rough estimate of the work will cost Liverpool around £60million, but no money will be loaned from club owners Fenway Sports Group to fund the expansion.

"I think overall it’s been really positive, 93 per cent positive support for the overall scheme," he added.

 

"We’re really encouraged by the turnout at the drop-in sessions, the amount of feedback we got, so overall I think it was a very positive first consultation.

"There is obviously some negative feedback in there, mostly focused around the road. So we’ve listened, we’ve gone back, had another look at the design, and I think we’ve come up with some really good solutions to those issues, which we’ll be going through in this second consultation."

 

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/anfield-road-stand-stadium-expansion-17734033

 

Liverpool are open to the prospect of naming rights as their plan to expand Anfield's capacity takes a step closer this week.

The Reds are aiming to move their iconic stadium's capacity beyond the 60,000 threshold with the second stage of public consultation beginning on Wednesday afternoon.

Around 7,000 additional seats are wanted with the majority to be sold as general admission. An outline of the number of those seats within the stand would be 5200, with around 1800 lounge and sports-bar style hospitality packages.

That means the Anfield Road's potential upgrade to 16,000 will be bigger than the Kop's current capacity by a third, taking the ground's total up to 61,000 to make it the third highest in the top flight behind Manchester United and Tottenham.

 

Once the second stage of the consultation has been completed and feedback has been assessed, the submission of a planning application will be presented to Liverpool City Council in the spring.

Should all run smoothly, Liverpool are hopeful that construction can commence towards the end of the year, and the club feel they are on course to complete the work alongside London architecture firm KSS before the start of the 2022/23 campaign.

 

And with the increase believed to be costing the club an initial estimate of around £60million, the ECHO understands the potential of bringing in additional revenue through a commercial naming of the stand is on the table.

Naming rights were on the agenda for the unveiling of the Main Stand back in September 2016, but the club were able to offset some costs for the construction by sponsoring the individual lounges instead.

 

"The whole team have gained a huge amount of experience working on the Main Stand," said Liverpool chief operating officer Andy Hughes.

"A lot of the advisors we’re using and our internal team all worked on the Main Stand project. I’m hoping this will be a little simpler but yes it does help.

"We did actually sponsor some of the internal lounges but Anfield is Anfield. There’s a different market for sponsoring an individual stand but we’re still looking at all those options. I still think all of them are potentially options going forward.

"There’s no difference in approach, it’s just really early days. We’ve not really progressed that at this stage but we will at some point think about it."

 

A total of 93 per cent of local residents provided positive feedback on the plans at the first stage of consultation last year with the club in dialogue over the minority who voiced their concerns over road access.

The opportunity to extend the use of the stadium beyond football matches is also being explored, building on the success of events last summer when the likes of Pink, Take That and Bon Jovi performed.

 

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/fsg-open-prospect-anfield-naming-17734276

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So at the end of this expansion we will have a capacity 1000 higher than Arsenal and the same as Spurs. All for a cost of £110m for the Main stand and £60m for the Anfield road end. The Main Stand is 3 years into being paid for and hopefully paid by the time they start this new stand.

 

The Emirates cost £390m and Spurs ground cost £1bn. 

 

Everton still have nice shiny drawings of theirs that cost £11m.

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17 minutes ago, Doctor Troy said:

So at the end of this expansion we will have a capacity 1000 higher than Arsenal and the same as Spurs. All for a cost of £110m for the Main stand and £60m for the Anfield road end. The Main Stand is 3 years into being paid for and hopefully paid by the time they start this new stand.

 

The Emirates cost £390m and Spurs ground cost £1bn. 

 

Everton still have nice shiny drawings of theirs that cost £11m.

60m is fuck all these days, can barely pay for one of Virgil's bollocks with that. 

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11 minutes ago, Aventus said:

60m is fuck all these days, can barely pay for one of Virgil's bollocks with that. 

Its Lovren, Wilson and Shaqiri being sold in the summer. 

 

Really hope there's some way in the near future to update that Centenary stand.

 

Most grounds that were updated in the early 90s are becoming outdated and badly showing their age.

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