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Parry: 70,000 Capacity Stadium in Time for 2011/12 Season
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Press Stories Untrue18:30GMT Dec 17th 2007 by Ste Leftley, Newanfield.co.uk
Newanfield.co.uk has enquired into reports that Liverpool are ready to make the stadium a 70,000 capacity arena. The current application which was secured in November by Liverpool City Council was for a 60,000 seated futuristic design.
Although this design has been modified Rick Parry has reassured fans it will be a "significant improvement" but this is highly likely to need a new planning application. This will probably be achieved by starting to build under the current 60,000 plan and submitting a new application once building work has commenced. It will be based on improvments to the tansport system and the impact on the local area.
"It is a shame that the amazing plans that blew us away in the summer have to make way but it is only right that the future of the club is on sound finacial ground with a new improved stadium that an under threat club but amazing ground".
Speaking today (17/12/07) on to Liverpool FC TV, Rick Parry today reassured Liverpool fans they will have a stadium to be proud of in time for the 2011-12 season.
Parry admits the Reds have had to rethink plans for the futuristic designs revealed earlier in the year, but he is confident the new 70,000 seater stadium will still be a fitting home for the club.
He said: "We are now considering two schemes but the stadium will be a 70,000 seater.
"The new stadium will be a significant improvement on the original plans and a slightly different version of the new ones.
"And it will be a massive improvement on where we were 12 months ago, if not quite as dramatic as the plans unveiled in the summer.
"The single tier Kop remains fundamental to the design and we are not expecting any delays – it should be on schedule for 2011."
PRESS STORIES UNTRUE
On Saturday 15/12/07 Chief Executive Rick Parry told liverpoolfc.tv: "We remain absolutely committed to the building of a new stadium which will improve on the original design inherited by Tom Hicks and George Gillett when they came into the club.
"It will have a capacity of around 70,000, be higher quality and have a substantially increased Kop which will form the centrepiece of the new plans.
"Ever since the original designs were unveiled, we have been continuously revising and refining with the intention of delivering the best possible solution to our future needs.
"The situation in the credit markets has not affected our design, programme, or implementation of building our new stadium. The priority has always been to build a winning team on the pitch and everything else we do is geared towards that."
Earlier reports on Saturday had been:
Liverpool are set to scrap plans for a new £700m stadium because funding for it has been hit by the volatile financial credit markets. (Mirror) The star and the times all went with the story which appeared to suggest that Liverpool's owners could not get a loan for the cost due to the credit crunch.
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