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Do we have to make the terrace all-seater?

OakwoodExileOakwoodExile
in Football

Apologies for starting a new thread but I have tried to find an answer to this on the web without success. Do we have to make the home terrace all-seater within three years of our promotion to the Championship (did you hear that at the back? Our promotion to the Championship)?

Two things I did find

  • the Sports Grounds Safety Authority's website is truly awful and its search function is a joke
  • Brentford were allowed to keep their terracing, but this seems to have been mainly because of their proposed move to Lionel Road.

Comments

  • DevCDevC

    Yes (unless we were to announce plans to move)

    Not sure if we still have two years to do it when we reach the Premier though

  • GlenacticoGlenactico

    I would really hope that if we do have to go down this route some common sense is applied in order to allow us to implement a safe standing solution.

  • TomTom

    3 years to get it done

  • VinceyVincey

    Surely a mirroring of the away end at AP.

  • our_frankour_frank

    I would be massively disappointed if the club raced to do this early in that 3 years. And even if they then had to, they ought to be proposing some of those funky standing/sitting solutions they trialled in the corner of the Family Stand.

  • chairboyscentralchairboyscentral

    Surely we wouldn't do it unless we were still there after three seasons.

  • OakwoodExileOakwoodExile

    That’s the question, isn’t it? I don’t think the obligation falls away if you’re relegated.

  • OakwoodExileOakwoodExile

    Actually I’m wrong. Paul Lewis (COTN) has just tweeted the answer

    https://mobile.twitter.com/GasmanCOTN/status/1283397221829021696

  • chairboyscentralchairboyscentral
    edited July 2020

    I'm pretty sure it does. Burton and Yeovil still have more terracing than us. I may be wrong, but I've interpreted it as consecutive seasons.
  • OxfordBlueOxfordBlue

    @OakwoodExile said:
    That’s the question, isn’t it? I don’t think the obligation falls away if you’re relegated.

    It does fall away, the regulation is Championship specific.

  • Right_in_the_MiddleRight_in_the_Middle

    Is it like being US President?

    Once you been in the Championship you are forever refered to as 'a Championship side'

    Seems to work with alot of fans when a team has been 'non league'.

    P.S. Is that section of seating/standing seats still in the corner of the Family Stand?

  • WendovermanWendoverman

    But surely they are still looking at safe standing. By the time we get to the Prem it will all be okay. As long as Gareth doesn't do it a couple of seasons early.

  • MaloneMalone

    Let's keep enjoying the moment for a bit longer eh chaps, without these sort of worries.

    We'll be moaning at a Friday night away game v Middlesborough to kick off the sky season next.

  • Right_in_the_MiddleRight_in_the_Middle

    Spurs have safe standing don't they?

  • Right_in_the_MiddleRight_in_the_Middle

    Would Oxford gave had to make both ends all seater had they gone up?

  • StrongestTeamStrongestTeam

    @Right_in_the_Middle said:
    Would Oxford gave had to make both ends all seater had they gone up?

    Yeah, they'd have needed to ask the 3 guys in the pallet van to sit down.

  • ValleyWandererValleyWanderer

    ???

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