A Northern League football club has outlined its latest development plans.

Durham City AFC has re-submitted plans to develop an indoor Soccarena and function room alongside its New Ferens Park ground, on the Belmont Industrial Estate.

The revised proposals would see eight indoor six-a-side pitches created with changing and steam rooms at the western corner of the site, off the A690 link road between the Carrville A1(M) interchange and the city centre.

A function room to cater for between 260 and 300 people would be included in the development, in a steel-framed, fabric-covered structure.

The plans also allow for extra car parking.

An additional terrace is to be added to extend capacity by about 1,500, to almost 5,000, at a ground used not only for Durham's division one games, but which also provides a home venue for Sunderland's reserves.

Approval was granted last month for a 40-bed Travel Inn and Brewsters pub and restaurant off Broomside Lane, on part of the 23-acre site.

Club chairman and president Stewart Dawson said the latest plans for the indoor football centre had been scaled down from the original proposal for up to 14 pitches.

He has just returned from a trip to Amsterdam to look at Fieldturf, the latest in synthetic football surfaces, to be used in the Soccarena.

The plans are recommended for approval by Durham City Council's development control committee, on Wednesday.