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Everton Football Club have submitted a planning application to Liverpool Council for Goodison Park.

The Blues are seeking permission to make the stadium more accessible for disabled fans at the entrance near St Lukes Church.

If approved, the plans would see the construction of an enclosure featuring a ramp for wheel chair users at the northern end of the stadium.

Club bosses have been kept busy in recent months over plans for a proposed 52,000 seat stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.

After acquiring the site following a legnthy negotiation, the club recently confirmed that a planning application for the new ground won't be going in until later this year

In the meant time, it appears the Blues are keeping themselves busy by continuing to improving the experience for disabled fans at Goodison Park.

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The new enclosure would lie between two stands - the Goodison Road Stand and the Gwladys Street Stand.

The enclosure will provide safer and improved access to the disabled entrance that already exists at the site.

Planning documents say the latest accessibility development will allow a 'free flow of people' to access the existing door 'unimpeded'.

It says the floor within the enclosure will have no step changes and will be gently ramped up to make it easier for disabled fans to get to their seats on match days.

On non-matchdays, the multi-functional development will be used as a security container for the stadium's compactor device.

The plans follow a number of works taken to make the stadium more accessible for disabled fans over the years.

In 2017 the club completed works on a new entrance on Goodison Place that allowed wheelchair users to reach a new viewing platform.

The changes were made to address the fact that there were a lack of elevated seats for disabled fans in the ground.

Work continued in 2018 to create more accessible seating positions.

The club increased the capacity and quality of disabled seating in the ground, as well as completing a large platform at the south of the stadium.

The application for the new enclosure says the proposed new extension is in line with the "design ethos" of recent refurbishment to the grandstand elevations of Goodison Park, and follows the two phases of accessibility improvements that have taken place.

Everton Football Club were contacted for comment.