Edinburgh City Council has approved plans to redevelop the main stand at Tynecastle, the home stadium of Scottish Premiership football club Heart of Midlothian (Hearts).
The £11m (€12.2m/$13.4m) project will begin next month and will increase the capacity of the stadium to more than 20,000 when it is completed in September next year.
According to Hearts owner Ann Budge, the stadium’s current capacity of 17,400 should be unaffected during the construction work. The capacity of the main stand will be 7,000 following the revamp.
The project will adopt a similar strategy as to the redevelopment of English Premier League football club Liverpool’s main stand, with construction work focusing on the exterior of the stand at the start, allowing the interior of the facility to remain open to the public on match days up until the end of the current 2016-17 season.
To accommodate the schedule, Hearts will ask the league to play the team’s final two games of the current season and the opening two matches of the next season to be played away from home to enable construction work to take place inside the venue.
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