JD> "Spoke to Bryan Gray in The Great Room many many years ago and he told me that the STFS was constructed with high tension steel that could take the extra weight unlike the other 3 stands."
I'm taking this as fact. Elsewhere I read that your conversation was about 1997 or 98.
So I presume that Bryan was talking about the future plans for the two of the stands i.e. no plan to use high tensile steel in their construction.
By that time the plans for the BSK were probably set, so he'd be referring to an actual plan for that particular stand. So only one stand could take an extra tier.
I read 3 different threads on this subject, maybe it was this one that offered the view that only 7 visiting premier teams would require more than about 24,000 capacity. Interesting and it focusses the mind.
One presumes that the original plan for Deepdale was to have a capacity of about 28,000 (2 x 8000 and 2 x 6000) and a few people have mentioned this figure. However, that would be before the planning restriction for the IP stand became known.
From the knowledge provided by fans, the completion of the IP stand would provide another 200 corporate seats and 2 rows of regular seats (about 450 seats).
23404 + 650 = 24054
(I'm using 23404 until someone has a confirmed larger figure.)
Some of those 7 premier teams have visited in recent years (see next post).
I'm taking this as fact. Elsewhere I read that your conversation was about 1997 or 98.
So I presume that Bryan was talking about the future plans for the two of the stands i.e. no plan to use high tensile steel in their construction.
By that time the plans for the BSK were probably set, so he'd be referring to an actual plan for that particular stand. So only one stand could take an extra tier.
I read 3 different threads on this subject, maybe it was this one that offered the view that only 7 visiting premier teams would require more than about 24,000 capacity. Interesting and it focusses the mind.
One presumes that the original plan for Deepdale was to have a capacity of about 28,000 (2 x 8000 and 2 x 6000) and a few people have mentioned this figure. However, that would be before the planning restriction for the IP stand became known.
From the knowledge provided by fans, the completion of the IP stand would provide another 200 corporate seats and 2 rows of regular seats (about 450 seats).
23404 + 650 = 24054
(I'm using 23404 until someone has a confirmed larger figure.)
Some of those 7 premier teams have visited in recent years (see next post).
