Town have been granted planning permission to add more executive boxes and office space in the Magnus Group West Stand, as well as for the memorial garden behind the Sir Alf Ramsey Stand.

The application, which was lodged with Ipswich Borough Council in April, reads: “Provision of new floor space infilling existing voids to the first and second floors of ITFC's West Stand to allow for new open plan offices and executive boxes. Together with the provision of a memorial garden access via Portman Road.”

The existing executive boxes in the stand were built during the late 1990s with the ultimate aim of filling all the way across to the North Stand end of the ground, however, this wasn’t completed.

Town announced in April that due to the installation of the new pitch, which has reached the stage where the next step is growing the natural grass, the ashes of fans interred at Portman Road will be moved to a new memorial garden behind the Sir Alf Ramsey Stand.

Following the final home game of the season, a memorial service was held for the families of those whose ashes are being moved.

Despite giving planning permission, IBC want further information before work on the memorial garden can get under way: “No development shall take place in association with the memorial garden hereby approved until details of both soft and hard landscape works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and these works shall be carried out as approved.

“These details shall include a specification of the pigmentation of the concrete planters, and details of any minor artefacts and structures (e.g. furniture, refuse units, signs, lighting, etc). Soft landscaping works shall include a schedule of plants, noting species, plant sizes and proposed numbers/densities, and implementation and management programme.”

Photos: ITFC

JewellintheTown added 15:25 - Jun 20 I'm surprised some jobsworth doesn't want to know the Pantone colour reference of the flowers. White and Blue of course.
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terryball2012 added 16:03 - Jun 20 Normal planning requirement
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grow_our_own added 16:13 - Jun 20 Wonder if there's time to add these boxes before start of season, I'm guessing not. I thought they might have pushed up capacity over 30k again, but it's only an extra 56 seats according to the second pic. Few hundred short.
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Suffolkboy added 16:20 - Jun 20 More positive progress : what's to come next in this superbly planned and executed transformation at P Rd and ITFC ? Yet another feather in the cap of the Board and Mark Ashton . Energy and enthusiasm just abound ! COYB
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TractorfactorSteve added 21:41 - Jun 20 The Zombie Apocalypse begins behind The Sir Alf stand.
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PhuketPete added 04:55 - Jun 21 I doubt relatives of those whose ashes are being re-interned from the pitch area to the memorial garden will fully appreciate the zombie humour. And anyway surely our small garden couldn't be described as having apocalyptic potential. After all Carrot Road has been filled with zombies every other week for some years without a full scale apocalypse - although we live in hope that relegation to League 1 will trigger one next season.

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Runner added 08:53 - Jun 21 Suffolkboy: another tier over the Cobbold Stand. If you check out what Liverpool have done at the Anfield Road end (away end) they have now got an upper stand of 7000 seats. We have the space if IBC give ITFC some of the car park area, maybe in exchange for the club building them a smaller area multistorey car park.
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TractorfactorSteve added 10:25 - Jun 21 Phuket Pete. Look at the picture. Then maybe book yourself in for your sense of humour by-pass reversal.
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 15:22 - Jun 21 grow-our-own: I too was hoping this might push the capacity past 30k, where it used to be and which somehow sounds so much better than 29-and-a-bit. But hopefully this will come in other ways in the future if we continue to be successful.
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