The Kop was replaced with a new stand in 1999. CREDIT David Locke_Leeds United Elland Road. It is understood that this stand had been designed specifically with future development in mind, therefore should the club ever have the need to increase the grounds capacity then it would be fundamentally possible to add a second tier without making any major alterations to the existing structure. While this is used for access to some of the facilities underneath the stand, the main players' tunnel now feeds out from the north-west corner, following the relocation of the changing rooms to the North Stand. Upton Park, West Ham Oakwell is a sports development in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Given that the average gate at Barnsley accounts for less than 50% of capacity this appeared to be a strange announcement, however there are a number of structural concerns with the roof and the wooden floor of the upper tier and it would seem that a new structure is more financially viable than maintaining the existing one. Laing O’Rourke built the Cardiff City Stadium, which opened in 2009 and is now home to Cardiff City FC and the Wales national football team. Including the Brewery Stand, Pontefract End and Spion Kop. The club has entered into a joint venture with Genesis Housing for a £175m mixed-use regeneration within the site – but permission to build a new stadium there still eludes them. With acrimony between the fans and the owner, and the club once again playing outside the Premier League, any potential expansion or relocation plans have seemingly been put on hold. The Ground is about 5 minutes walk straight ahead. However, nothing has come to fruition on that front, with the council owning the stadium since the club fell into administration in 2002. CREDIT Struway_Birmingham City St Andrews. This includes an indoor training pitch, a smaller stadium with seating on the south and west sides for around 2,200 spectators, and several training pitches used by the different Barnsley FC teams. Shortly after buying the club, Mr Allam held talks in 2010 with the stadium’s owner, Hull City Council, about buying the ground and redeveloping the area around it into a sporting village, but the talks broke down. West Stand. Plans were made to move to a new 50,000-seat stadium under the ill-fated Peter Ridsdale regime, but those soon disappeared. ... A redevelopment of the Main Stand … From the nippy outside toilets to the brown brick perimeter walls to the ridiculously precarious television gantry; this is what Northern football grounds are supposed to look like…, The Football Guide Ground have some cracking photos of Oakwell in its former guise, i.e, before three of the four stands were modernised in 1993…, City Ground, Nottingham Forest Oakwell was the first stadium in English football to have a designated stand for disabled supporters.[2].