A meeting organised by a residents’ association to discuss AFC Wimbledon’s plans for a new stadium will be held on Thursday night.

The Wimbledon Park Residents’ Association (WPRA) has written to neighbours of the Plough Lane site to invite them to a meeting to discuss what it calls inadequate plans for a new 11,000 seater stadium.

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The club has formally submitted detailed plans for a 20,000 seater football stadium, 602 flats, shops, parking and a squash and fitness club to Merton Council, which could be built in phases.

The public meeting will be led by WPRA chairman Iain Simpson who said everyone is welcome.

Mr Simpson said: "We are concerned about the fact that the Galliard application seems to be ignoring that they are proposing to build on a functioning flood plain not suitable for residential development.

"The application is pretty thin on a lot of things.

"AFC fans are anti anyone who has an objection but it is not just about football, it is about having a decent development."

Simon Wheeler, of the Wimbledon Independent Supporters Association (WISA) said he would urge people to attend.

He said: "The residents' association has not looked at the social and economic effect to the borough.

"It would make AFC Wimbledon the heart of the community.

"It is not just football, there would be volunteers across the borough working with those with special needs, elderly residents and doing art work."

He said the WPRA's objections were based on a few like-minded people trying to speak for everyone, but there was a lot of support for the club's plans from both supporters and non-supporters of the club.

Mr Simpson said the residents’ association would submit a formal letter against the plans this week to the council, which has ultimate responsibility for deciding whether to approve the plans unveiled exclusively in this newspaper.

The meeting is open for anyone interested in the development to attend, and will be held in Kohat Road Church Hall in Kohat Road, Wimbledon, on Thursday, January 15 from 7.30pm.