| Have I heard 13:43 - Apr 14 with 5991 views | backwaywhen | Correctly through hear say that we are about to start adding 7000 seats to be Installed onto the west stand , as soon as the season ends ? With those seats occupied by Portman stand ST holders , then work to begin on said stand ? I’m curious if anyone else has heard same info . |  | | |  |
| Have I heard on 13:45 - Apr 14 with 3583 views | blueislander | The West Stand? Surely The Cobbold has to be redeveloped first. |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 13:46 - Apr 14 with 3563 views | backwaywhen |
| Have I heard on 13:45 - Apr 14 by blueislander | The West Stand? Surely The Cobbold has to be redeveloped first. |
Read the post properly……. |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 13:46 - Apr 14 with 3558 views | Bobbychase |
| Have I heard on 13:45 - Apr 14 by blueislander | The West Stand? Surely The Cobbold has to be redeveloped first. |
Club did hint they might look at West Stand first |  |
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| Have I heard on 13:47 - Apr 14 with 3548 views | Weekender | with all of the design work/prep/logistics etc. surely this would have come out by now if true? |  |
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| Have I heard on 13:48 - Apr 14 with 3526 views | SitfcB | Mark Ashton did say they were going to look at adding seats into the West Stand perhaps before the Cobbold redevelopment, yes. It would make sense to be fair. |  |
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| Have I heard on 13:48 - Apr 14 with 3501 views | SitfcB |
| Have I heard on 13:45 - Apr 14 by blueislander | The West Stand? Surely The Cobbold has to be redeveloped first. |
Read it a bit slower |  |
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| Have I heard on 13:50 - Apr 14 with 3474 views | Cheltenham_Blue | They'd better get moving on the planning permission then if they are starting that in two and a half weeks time. |  |
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| Have I heard on 13:50 - Apr 14 with 3478 views | backwaywhen |
| Have I heard on 13:48 - Apr 14 by SitfcB | Mark Ashton did say they were going to look at adding seats into the West Stand perhaps before the Cobbold redevelopment, yes. It would make sense to be fair. |
Yes those new seats would be Portman stand ST holders with first dibs, then move them back when Portman is finished . |  | |  | Login to get fewer ads
| Have I heard on 13:50 - Apr 14 with 3465 views | jonny1964 |
| Have I heard on 13:48 - Apr 14 by SitfcB | Read it a bit slower |
read what? where?!! |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 13:52 - Apr 14 with 3429 views | Blueschev | Where would they go? I'm struggling to visualise it. |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 13:52 - Apr 14 with 3431 views | blueislander |
| Have I heard on 13:48 - Apr 14 by SitfcB | Mark Ashton did say they were going to look at adding seats into the West Stand perhaps before the Cobbold redevelopment, yes. It would make sense to be fair. |
Has planning permission for the Cobbold redevelopment been signed off? Obviously adding to the West Stand is less complicated as it wouldn’t affect land that is not part of the ground. |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 13:54 - Apr 14 with 3379 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Have I heard on 13:52 - Apr 14 by blueislander | Has planning permission for the Cobbold redevelopment been signed off? Obviously adding to the West Stand is less complicated as it wouldn’t affect land that is not part of the ground. |
No, there's nothing in planning approval for any of this at all, not the West Stand or the Cobbold. |  |
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| Have I heard on 13:59 - Apr 14 with 3255 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Have I heard on 13:50 - Apr 14 by backwaywhen | Yes those new seats would be Portman stand ST holders with first dibs, then move them back when Portman is finished . |
"Portman Stand"? |  |
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| Have I heard on 14:01 - Apr 14 with 3220 views | backwaywhen |
| Have I heard on 13:54 - Apr 14 by Cheltenham_Blue | No, there's nothing in planning approval for any of this at all, not the West Stand or the Cobbold. |
Strange as this rumour started from the guy who does the ground tours , some friends were told on the tour last weekend . |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 14:02 - Apr 14 with 3190 views | Kievthegreat | No chance of this happening this Summer. It's a huge amount of work and they don't even have planning permission for anything. If they submitted paperwork today they wouldn't get a planning decision by the end of summer. There is reason to believe this is the plan going forward, but the timescales are delusional. It won't be happening this summer. |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 14:07 - Apr 14 with 3105 views | ParisBlue | Work to start immediately after the qpr game apparently. 7000 new seats, same as the capacity of the cobbild. |  |
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| Have I heard on 14:07 - Apr 14 with 3089 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Have I heard on 13:46 - Apr 14 by backwaywhen | Read the post properly……. |
Name the stands properly... |  |
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| Have I heard on 14:12 - Apr 14 with 3018 views | portmanking |
| Have I heard on 14:07 - Apr 14 by ParisBlue | Work to start immediately after the qpr game apparently. 7000 new seats, same as the capacity of the cobbild. |
Genuinely?! |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 14:12 - Apr 14 with 3009 views | Miaow |
To be fair, I believe the Cobbold used to be known as the Portman Stand. |  |
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| Have I heard on 14:13 - Apr 14 with 2966 views | RIPbobby | I think they need to add another platform at Ipswich station and a three lane each way road from the town centre to the A14 first. |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 14:15 - Apr 14 with 2934 views | Steve_M |
The new stand to be known as The Mark Ashton Stand. |  |
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| Have I heard on 14:15 - Apr 14 with 2932 views | The_Major | It did indeed. I don't think it was called the Cobbold Stand until the nineties - possibly after Patrick Cobbold passed away? I've got t a hazy half remembered memory of David Sheepshanks announcing it? |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 14:16 - Apr 14 with 2900 views | Blueschev |
He means 7000 new seats in the Pioneer Stand, obviously. |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 14:21 - Apr 14 with 2829 views | tonybied |
| Have I heard on 14:13 - Apr 14 by RIPbobby | I think they need to add another platform at Ipswich station and a three lane each way road from the town centre to the A14 first. |
Why do ITFC need to "add another platform at Ipswich station and a three lane each way road from the town centre to the A14 first." ...I'm confused! |  | |  |
| Have I heard on 14:22 - Apr 14 with 2792 views | blueislander |
| Have I heard on 14:16 - Apr 14 by Blueschev | He means 7000 new seats in the Pioneer Stand, obviously. |
Not Churchmans? |  | |  |
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