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*Plans for an elevated standing area - to allow more space for supporters in the Leppings Lane terraces - were drawn up in 1981

The court heard former club director Keith Addy had asked for plans to be drawn up, not to increase the capacity of Hillsborough but to allow crowds to fit in more easily.

Nick Brown, representing 75 of the families, suggested that the plans showed the club had agreed with the police view that the Leppings Lane end capacity of 10,100 was too high.

But Mr Addy told the court it had just been an idea and had not gone ahead because it was not suitable.

* A club director said he didn't see any emergency services taking charge at the disaster

Mr Addy told the court: "I can only describe the scene as chaotic.

“I have no impression of any emergency services taking charge of the situation and can’t recall seeing what emergency services were doing.”

* A fire service chief said the tragedy came "out of the blue"

Former assistant chief fire officer Alan Seaman said no one saw the disaster on April 15, 1989, coming.

Philip Kolvin, representing Sheffield City Council, said: "Is it right to say that the fire service did not foresee that somebody would open an exit gate and let a very large number of people in without directing them where to go once they got through?"

Mr Seaman agreed.

* The creation of pens would have been "a nonsense" if the crowds had not been controlled, the court heard

Mr Seaman said there was "no way" the fire service would have accepted plans for pens if they had thought there would be no control over the numbers going into them.

He agreed with Philip Kolvin QC, representing Sheffield City Council who said: "This idea that fans could be sent down the tunnel into these central pens and then left to their own devices if they found it a bit too full in there to spread out along the terrace – you thought it was a nonsense, didn’t you?"

*The communication of the group set up to monitor safety at the stadium was rated as three out of 10

Mr Seaman said after Sheffiled City Council took over as licensing authority of the ground in 1986 there was not good communication from the Officer Working Party - the group set up to monitor safety at the ground.

He said he stopped receiving minutes from meetings and rated the communication at just three out of 10.

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