 The club brought in Bill O'Neil from Atcost to design and build a new purpose-built stand.The new 800-seater, which brings the seating capacity to over one thousand, was used for the first time for the Essex Senior Cup final against Canvey Island on 4 August 2001, twelve weeks after the old stand was last used.During summer 2001 new turnstile blocks were constructed and the eight floodlights were replaced with four corner ones.