A phased build programme is due to run from autumn 2006 to spring 2009, avoiding any disruption to The Derby, which will remain at Epsom.
The proposed new grandstand will sit alongside the landmark Queen’s Stand. It is designed by Limbrick Architecture + Design to create a venue fit for The Derby – the most prestigious flat race in the world – and for year-round non-racing activities, such as conferences, banquets, concerts, weddings and corporate events.
The proposed design reduces the impact of the grandstand on The Downs by having a lower height and smaller footprint than the buildings it replaces. The proposals include:
• a betting, conference and exhibition hall of approx 1,400m²
• steppings for 4,312 spectators, contributing to a grandstand capacity of 10,875
• a 625-cover banqueting suite and restaurant
• a new entrance pavilion and racecourse administration offices
• a larger enclosure for the public in front of the new entrance pavilion
• space for a new world-class media centre


http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/66.jpg?t=1168444188

The new grandstand design is not very impressive and looks like tin shed in my opinion.

For more artists impressions of the new stand go to,
http://www.limbrick.info/artman/publish/epsomdowns_racecourse.shtml

yeah its not ascot by any means, but its hard to tell what it will actually be like from the renders shown.

Looks poor in my opinion...why should it reduce Its imapact on the downs? seems a strange angle to come from?

^^
I agree.
Perhaps they think the sloping roof will reduce the impact on the landscape, I don't think it will.
Yes it is, maybe they think it will help in the process of gaining planning permission.
The current grandstand refurbished with a new stand to the side would look better in my opinion.

i agree...the new stand looks like a cheap relation to the queens stand and who are the architects anyway? if anything this should of been a competition as its such a prestigous site. And those renders are very poor...

i agree...the new stand looks like a cheap relation to the queens stand and who are the architects anyway? if anything this should of been a competition as its such a prestigous site. And those renders are very poor...

Limbrick Limited are the architects. The price for the project is £23.5 million at the present time.
New Renders,
http://www.limbrick.info/artman/uploads/epsom01.jpg http://www.limbrick.info/artman/uploads/epsom03.jpg

More renders and information available at Limbrick (http://www.limbrick.info/artman/publish/epsomdowns_racecourse.shtml)

looks cheap and nasty.

Yeargh! Cheap and nasty is right! :puke:

The Queens Stand isn't exactly earth shattering architecture but compared to this piece of bland shite it's pretty Rolls Royce! How can the planners have allowed this... scrub that, knowing what they've allowed in the rest of Epsom I know exactly how - they're a bunch of clueless tossers.

Rise up people of Epsom and demand better!

A report on London Tonight (local news) says the work should begin in August.

Edit

Phase one of the development is now underway, The Rosebery stand is now being demolished making way for the new entrance Pavillion which which will be completed by May 2007.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/Demolition20of20the20Rosebery20Stan.jpg?t=1168443946

Great to see the work starting but the design is terrible.
http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/grandstand/pictures.html

Work is now well underway on the new Entrance Pavilion and is on schedule to open for the Vodafone Derby.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/Entrance20Pavilion20-20with20part20.jpg?
http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/grandstand/pictures.html

Yeargh! Cheap and nasty is right! :puke:

The Queens Stand isn't exactly earth shattering architecture but compared to this piece of bland shite it's pretty Rolls Royce! How can the planners have allowed this... scrub that, knowing what they've allowed in the rest of Epsom I know exactly how - they're a bunch of clueless tossers.

Rise up people of Epsom and demand better!


It doesnt look TOO bad. Admittedly it could be a bit more inspired but given the almost impossible task of getting planning permission in Epsom for anything other than the most uninspired designs its not surprising the town ended up with this.

Check out this lot if you want to see what the town is up against. Their regular newletter makes it clear how hard they fight any proposal that is likely to change the character of the town...

www.epsomprotectionsociety.co.uk

Update time!

October 2007

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/Epsom1525Pages1.jpg
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/Epsom1524Pages1.jpg
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/Epsom1523Pages1.jpg
http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/Default.ink

December 2007
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/Epsom1573Pages1.jpg
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/Epsom1563Pages1.jpg
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/Epsom1562Pages1.jpg
http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/Default.ink

From the Epsom Racecourse website.

"Grandstand on Schedule"

Epsom's exciting £27.6 million Grandstand redevelopment project is still running on schedule. Both the new Grandstand and Hotel are taking shape and the frame of the new Grandstand is now in place, along with most of the steppings and the first lift shaft.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/Epsom6815News1.jpg
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/Epsom6815News2.jpg
Rest of the article,
http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/news/Epsom6815.ink

The one they knock down looks better than the one going up. 23.5 million for that is unbelievable (someones taking a back hander somewhere).

^Agreed, every time I drive past it looks more and more like a "D.F.S" is going up.
The original grandstand should have been saved.

I agree with the comment about it looking like an outlet for DFS. The existing Queen's Stand looks like a block of flats on the Brighton seafront so they should make a pretty pair. I'm sure the home of the country's premier race deserves more than this structure - OK for somewhere like Lingfield but surely not Epsom. The hotel going up next to the racecourse stables is showing every sign of looking just as cheap and tacky.

so its exciting is it? hmmm.

Update,
April
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/z-Epsom1588Pages25.jpg
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/z-Epsom1588Pages28.jpg
May
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/z-Epsom1588Pages32.jpg
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/Hunted316/z-Epsom1588Pages34.jpg
Pictures,
http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/Default.ink

Is this due to be finished for 6th/7th June?

^No, it should be finished by May, next year.

Is this building finished now?

I found these pictures on the Epsom race course site. These are the latest ones that they have and they're from November 08:

http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/uploads/images/large/z-Epsom8027Pages10.jpg

http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/uploads/images/large/z-Epsom8027Pages22.jpg

http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/uploads/images/large/z-Epsom8027Pages19.jpg

http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/uploads/images/large/z-Epsom8027Pages17.jpg

http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/uploads/images/large/z-Epsom8137Pages7.jpg

http://www.epsomderby.co.uk/uploads/images/large/z-Epsom8027Pages16.jpg

Thanks for the update, I forgot.

riveting isn't it.

^^ Whereabouts? I thought riveting had been put in the history books.

It looks slightly better than the original renders but still pretty dissapointing..