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West Stand design recycled from 1998


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Ploughing through my programme collection the other day and had to do a double take when I saw the attached image from January 1999.

The skyline profile of the new West Stand bears a remarkable resemblance to the mock up photos of what was planned 19 years ago.

Hope SL didn't pay twice for the design drawings!!!

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We've had a number of different schemes (even discounting Ashton Vale) that have made it into the press over the years.

If I remember correctly, the 1998 plans were put forward based on a single two-tier stand that was built at Leicester's Filbert Street.  The cost being quoted around the £5M level.

The irony that we should follow Leicester's example is that having opened their Carling Stand (at a cost of approximately £5M) in 1994, they then demolished it just nine years later when they moved to the Kingpower/Walkers Stadium:
http://www.footballgroundguide.com/old-grounds-and-stands/filbert_street_leicester.htm

It is uncanny how similar those Ashton Gate artist's impressions look compared to the completed Lansdown Stand.

Interesting if anyone else has any other scans/photos of the various proposed redevelopments that followed from around the time when the Atyeo replaced the open end terracing.

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1 hour ago, Northern Red said:

It wouldn't have been long after those plans were released that there was talk that Hengrove was being scoped out as a potential site for a new stadium. 

Always thought Hengrove would have been a decent location for a new ground.. right in the heartland of our support that 

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4 hours ago, headhunter said:

The skyline profile of the new West Stand bears a remarkable resemblance to the mock up photos of what was planned 19 years ago.

While everyone is digging, this was the design published in 2002. Presumably based on a dystopian universe where people hide during hours of daylight and the only vehicles permitted on the road are blue Daihatsu's or silver Mercedes A-Classes.

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1 hour ago, Olé said:

While everyone is digging, this was the design published in 2002. Presumably based on a dystopian universe where people hide during hours of daylight and the only vehicles permitted on the road are blue Daihatsu's or silver Mercedes A-Classes.

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Glad that never happened. 

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2 hours ago, Olé said:

While everyone is digging, this was the design published in 2002. Presumably based on a dystopian universe where people hide during hours of daylight and the only vehicles permitted on the road are blue Daihatsu's or silver Mercedes A-Classes.

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Sorry to be a pedant, but in this dystopian future the  Vans are Mazda Bongo's and the Cars are Audi A2's. And it would appear some cataclysmic event has rendered south Bristol into a volcanic plain on which the stadium has been built

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1 hour ago, wendyredredrobin said:

So SL paid an architect a shed load of money to design a stand and he simply copied the old plans and tweaked them a bit.

I doubt that. Would imagine a complete top-to-bottom redesign was done for the eventual build. 

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Pretty sure both the new stands were complete redesigns from scratch that externally were not dissimilar to those submitted for and given planning permission. West Stand in the late 90s and the South Stand during Sexton’s time in the mid 2000s.

In the plans submitted for what actually happened to the council a big thing was made in them about how similar the new designs were to those already given permission, with outlines showing the external differences.

I remember vaguely something from way back that was going to be known as ‘The Hub’. Which is essentially where the Sports Bar is. I don’t recall that ever being brought back up!

 

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7 hours ago, Olé said:

While everyone is digging, this was the design published in 2002. Presumably based on a dystopian universe where people hide during hours of daylight and the only vehicles permitted on the road are blue Daihatsu's or silver Mercedes A-Classes.

175387.JPEG.cb234d866b6c594dd0102143a39cbb81.JPEG

The Miller Partnership had obviously splashed out on top of the range Amstrads especially for the sales pitch too.

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