A local football club is planning to rejuvenate a troubled sports ground in New Eltham.

Greenwich Borough FC have submitted plans to take over the old gaelic football pitch in Avery Hill Road.

The club have proposed to build two all-weather football pitches, an academy with ancillary facilities and floodlights.

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Greenwich Borough FC chairman Perry Skinner revealed the club had been putting the plans together for the last six-to-eight months.

He said: "It's what we've been planning since me and my brother took over the club two years ago, It's always been our ambition to give our supporters a home in Greenwich.

"We are a local club, a club that deserves to be back in Greenwich.

"We've got a lot of support in Greenwich from our MP Clive Efford and residents, it's exciting times, watch this space."

The club were forced to leave their former home at Harrow Meadows in 2008 and since then have shared grounds in Bromley and Dartford.

Mr Skinner's plans have already received the backing of the Avery Hill residents group who have described the plans as the best thing to happen to the sports ground in the last 25 years.

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Raged Residents chairman Malcolm Bond said: "Greenwich Borough FC are wanting to produce a marvellous new sports and recreational facility which is tasteful; and sensitive to local residents and the wider community.

"The facilities they will put there over the next couple of years will go a long way to heal the abomination created by the Gaelic Athletic Association of London.

"This is the best news I've had in 25 years."

The ambitious plan submitted by Greenwich Borough is reliant on them moving through the divisions rapidly, with plans drawn focussing on the club being in the Conference Premier in six years.

An application has also been submitted to the council by developer Linden Homes, who want to build housing on the ground.

Famous alumni of Greenwich Borough FC are former Arsenal striker Ian Wright who began his career at the club and Danny Dyer, who was chairman of the club in 2007 for around two months.