The various alterations to Hillsborough Stadium should have resulted in a review of the Safety Certificate and its terms and conditions, but did not. However, from 1986, work began to review the conditions of the Safety Certificate, both by SCC and, separately, Eastwood & Partners on behalf of SWFC.
However, by the time of the 1989 Semi-Final, this had only resulted in revised draft conditions being presented for consideration by the SSGAG. The revised version contained the same capacity figures as the original Safety Certificate, with the exception of the capacity for the Spion Kop, which had been revised upwards to 21,000 following work to extend it. SWFC and Eastwood & Partners had requested this upward revision, which increased the overall capacity of the stadium from 50,174 in the original Safety Certificate, to over 54,000.
In 1987, SWFC specifically asked Eastwood & Partners' advice as to the capacity of the West Terrace in light of all of the alterations that had taken place over the years. Eastwood & Partners advised that there was no need to change the capacity of 10,100.
