Welshlad86 wrote:The stadium supports are just over the road. They would not have had air rights to build over adjacent properties, hence why the two supports at the arms park end are angled differently to the park street ones. The athletic club objected to the supports overlapping their property.
Given the history involved with the North Stand etc., I'm sure the athletic club did object. But that doesn't mean that the property owners on the other side also objected. Take a look of a photo of the stadium when it was completed, you can see how close those supports are to the property line.
If they do put something tall so close, I think it would be yet another mistake. I'm still p*ssed about the decision to build that hideous cinema so close to the stadium. Seriously, what is the point in building an iconic stadium if you if allow other people to box it in with utter crap?