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Everton's plans for a new stadium have received major public backing as part of a ground breaking consultation process.

The Blues received over 43,000 responses to their summer survey about the People's Project, which includes a proposed new home at Bramley-Moore Dock and the club's aims to redevelop the site at Goodison Park.

Everton's second stage consultation is believed to be the largest commercial undertaking of its kind in the city's history and comes on the back of 2018's first stage, which attracted more than 20,000 responses.

And after the Blues crunched the numbers they have revealed that 96% of people who took part want the project to continue.

Everton, who remain on course to submit a planning application before the end of the year, have also revealed that 98% of all respondents support the design of the 52,000 seater stadium with 99% of Everton fans backing what architect Dan Meis unveiled in July.

The Blues' second stage consultation reached 2,726 non-Everton fans - 24% of who have on interest in football - and included a 19-day touring exhibition that visited 12 locations across all six Liverpool City Region boroughs.

The tour events were attended by more than 15,000 people and included a virtual reality experience giving users a chance to fly over the proposed new stadium and place themselves in the centre circle.

Other headline results from Everton's second stage of public consultation include:

96% support the proposed reuse of historic features at Bramley Moore Dock, including the Hydraulic Tower

90% support the proposed transport strategy for both match day and non-match days

92% support the proposed outline layout/design for the redevelopment of Goodison Park

91% support the proposed mix of uses and amount of development at Goodison Park

Everton also received a large number of comments and observations from the 43,039 people that took part and the club say all feedback as helped shape their detailed planning application – for a new stadium on the waterfront – and an outline application for the Goodison legacy project.