So what are West Ham going to do to change the Olympic Stadium? New plans are revealed here...

After winning their move to the Olympic Stadium, West Ham have released a further set of architectural drawings to show how the redesigned stadium will look.

The drawings show how the stadium will work with the athletics track and how the seats in the lower tier will be on an automated system using drive motors allowing the seats to be moved closer to pitch and covering the running track.

The design of the stadium is similar to that of the Emirates and Wembley with the seats close to the pitch.



Ready for athletics: How the stadium will look with the running track

Covered up: Drawings showing how the seats will cover the track for football

Hammers fans will be pleased to see that stands that exist at Upton Park named after club legends Bobby Moore and Trevor Brooking will remain.



Another image shows the design of the roof and at 84m it will become the largest spanning tensile roof in the world covering all the seats and keeping the atmosphere in the stadium.

The Hammers will relocate to their new 54,000-seat home in the Olympic Stadium in 2016 and co-chairman David Sullivan said: ‘Since we came to West Ham in 2010 we have had a vision to really take the club forward so West Ham can compete on the pitch at the highest level.

How it will work: Technical drawings showing how the seating in the lower bowl will bring fans closer to the pitch

'[Friday's] decision offers us a real platform to do this and we are fully committed to making it a real success.'

West Ham will pay only £15million up front for the £600m venue, and £2m a year in rent.

But London Mayor Boris Johnson believes it is a good deal for those who pay council tax in the capital, as well as the club.

He said: 'The result represents a very good investment for the taxpayer because it will deliver long-term revenues and will also help to regenerate a part of east London and create thousands and thousands of jobs.

All covered up: How the Olympic Stadium will look with the large new roof

‘The income, which is going to come in from rent, hospitality and naming rights, will be very, very substantial.

'Suppose we had not refurbished this stadium and left it as it was after London 2012. I don’t think Londoners and the world would have thought that was a great future for a venue that entered everybody’s hearts.'

The move has not gone down well with everyone. West Ham have secured a 99-year lease on a stadium that has mostly been built using taxpayers’ money and Richard Caborn, who was Sports Minister when the stadium was designed, branded the decision ‘the biggest mistake of the Olympics'.

Artists impression: How the stadium will look when finished

New home: West Ham will move into the Olympic Stadium in time for the 2016-17 season

He added: ‘Lessons should be learned from this. West Ham are basically getting a stadium costing more than £600m for just £15m and a small amount in annual rent. I do welcome the fact that the future of the stadium has finally been secured, but we should also realise that the public sector is picking up the tab.’

New home: An artist's impression of how the Olympic Stadium will look when West Ham move in

New home: West Ham will move into the Olympic Stadium in time for the 2016-17 season

Leyton Orient chairman Barry Hearn, who proposed his League One side share the stadium with West Ham, added to the dissenting voices. He told talkSport: ‘I don’t know why they are announcing anything because we have applied to the High Court for a judicial review of the bidding process so anything they announce about West Ham has to be subject to the High Court’s decision.