REDWHITEANDBLUE wrote:Just over 7000 according to a comment on the Train Facebook site. Probably something like this at the moment 2600 East Stand 1700 Western Terrace 3000 North Stand
The North terrace held about 6k I believe before the recent work was carried out. At the moment it's significantly lower than what it was. Obviously the Western Terrace could hold a lot more if the boxes were disposed of the rear part terraced but we all know the owner is looking at both these areas
There's an interesting NSC article from Mar 2023 about the Belle Vue Stadium redevelopment (presumably written before last year's delays on the New Stand)
This article states: East Stand capacity 2600 Refurbishment of the North Stand to increase capacity from 1500 up to 3500. Overall, the completion of the work will increase the stadium’s capacity from its current 7258 up to 8866.
Last season the capacity was 4710. So if all that's changed is the New East Stand, then the capacity should be about 7300.
Assuming the article was written before the delays, then a figure of 7258 could be the exact current capacity. The article implies extra work will raise the capacity by another 1608. But that doesn't quite tally with then saying "Refurbishment of the North Stand to increase capacity from 1500 up to 3500."
I've also no idea what the capacity is of the South Stand/boxes, but I would assume it's a few 100. So we need to knock that off the North/West terrace figures?
REDWHITEANDBLUE wrote:Just over 7000 according to a comment on the Train Facebook site. Probably something like this at the moment 2600 East Stand 1700 Western Terrace 3000 North Stand
The North terrace held about 6k I believe before the recent work was carried out. At the moment it's significantly lower than what it was. Obviously the Western Terrace could hold a lot more if the boxes were disposed of the rear part terraced but we all know the owner is looking at both these areas
There's an interesting NSC article from Mar 2023 about the Belle Vue Stadium redevelopment (presumably written before last year's delays on the New Stand)
This article states: East Stand capacity 2600 Refurbishment of the North Stand to increase capacity from 1500 up to 3500. Overall, the completion of the work will increase the stadium’s capacity from its current 7258 up to 8866.
Last season the capacity was 4710. So if all that's changed is the New East Stand, then the capacity should be about 7300.
Assuming the article was written before the delays, then a figure of 7258 could be the exact current capacity. The article implies extra work will raise the capacity by another 1608. But that doesn't quite tally with then saying "Refurbishment of the North Stand to increase capacity from 1500 up to 3500."
I've also no idea what the capacity is of the South Stand/boxes, but I would assume it's a few 100. So we need to knock that off the North/West terrace figures?
FSW wrote:And yet the Cas death trap has an alleged 13000 capacity, presumably both limits defined by Wakefield MDC. Go figure!!
That was for the new stadium at escape. Glasshoughton in the address is the give away. We had 10,200 for the Wigan game and the club said there were only about 200 to lets left so the capacity is probably about 10,400.
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