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[mickmike wilson]

I don't think this figure of 6,200 is confirmed and might be difficult to achieve with the Steelworks End empty.

I fully understand the club has been working around the clock to get everything L2 compliance etc & the virus ongoing but would the club be allowed to put a few rows of seats onto the Steelworks terracing during the season, Once things calm down a bit??

[LDBF]

I don't think this figure of 6,200 is confirmed and might be difficult to achieve with the Steelworks End empty.

I fully understand the club has been working around the clock to get everything L2 compliance etc & the virus ongoing but would the club be allowed to put a few rows of seats onto the Steelworks terracing during the season, Once things calm down a bit??

I suggested the same a while back and it was said for some reason not possible

[JammyBluebird]

I don't think this figure of 6,200 is confirmed and might be difficult to achieve with the Steelworks End empty.

I fully understand the club has been working around the clock to get everything L2 compliance etc & the virus ongoing but would the club be allowed to put a few rows of seats onto the Steelworks terracing during the season, Once things calm down a bit??

Lot of work for not a lot of benefit. SWE will probably closed until we've got a couple of grand spare to put some crush barriers up. Will only add a few hundred onto capacity.

[Paul]

I fully understand the club has been working around the clock to get everything L2 compliance etc & the virus ongoing but would the club be allowed to put a few rows of seats onto the Steelworks terracing during the season, Once things calm down a bit??

Lot of work for not a lot of benefit. SWE will probably closed until we've got a couple of grand spare to put some crush barriers up. Will only add a few hundred onto capacity.

Do we need crush barriers in the SWE, the terrace is only 4 steps deep, a lot less than anywhere else in the ground where there's barriers installed.

[Richard Ingham]

According to the rules and regs, we do yes.

Otherwise it would be allowed to be open as it is without them.

[chipmunx]

Lot of work for not a lot of benefit. SWE will probably closed until we've got a couple of grand spare to put some crush barriers up. Will only add a few hundred onto capacity.

Do we need crush barriers in the SWE, the terrace is only 4 steps deep, a lot less than anywhere else in the ground where there's barriers installed.

it would be cheaper to remove the small terracing - then maybe they wouldn't need any barriers? If so it could then be used.
the existing terracing isn't solid concrete - from memory it's mainly "beam and block" flooring which will be very easy to remove in comparison.

[Adam29]

It’s to do with walkways
Every stand has to have a walkway for safety reasons

[Richard Ingham]

I think the problem is not the terracing itself but the fact there has to be a flat area for access of whatever width the regs stipulate and then the terracing, seats or whatever that has to be separated by a crush barrier, like that added at the bottom of the HSE terrace for example.

Remove the terracing you would still need the crush barrier to separate one flat space from another.

Edit: Summed up by Adam much more concisely.

[spirit of 1990]

The area behind the pitch side wall on the HSE up to the first barriers (about 1m) is to be kept clear on match days. The same will apply to the SWE, even if the step terracing were removed that would leave about 1.5-2m of usable space, simply not worth it after putting piles and the crush barriers in.
I suppose the only way around it would be if the club could move the pitch more towards the HSE and increase the amount of space available on the SWE, which would not be a cheap project and hardly worth it as things stand.

*Thanks Mark Webb, a nice gesture and appreciated mate.