They better apply for planning then, the council might notice major works and not be to happy
I'm pretty sure they have outline planning permissions, unless they were allowed to lapse in the last few years.
It's over 20 years ago now, but I was told by a couple of people that Bob Murray had various extension plans drawn up and that extending the stadium would be relatively easy. To paraphrase what I was told it would almost be as if you'd take the roof off the east stand, put up the new structure then put the roof back on, so not as complex as some stadium extensions and redevelopments. This is when the north stand upper was being proposed, and the designs would take the SOL up to about 62-64k, though one of the blokes who told me reckoned that there were plans to go as high as 72k, which I think was him being mistaken. I was also told later that the reason the north stand isn't as high as the west stand is the the highways agency (not the council) wouldn't allow the road behind the north stand to be redirected.
If the outline planning permissions are still there, it'll just be a case of putting in a formal application, so it might not be as long as it could be. Added to that, from a couple of my sources, parts of the Sheepfolds should start to be getting cleared fairly soon. They're already taking down part of the Edward Thompson buildings and are supposed to be hoping to start clearing the rest of the site when the remaining businesses there move out. It would be good to get a planning application in now in readiness of that to cut down any possible disruption.
