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The next stage of Liverpool's plans to expand the Anfield Road stand are underway after residents were invited to attend a public consultation.

The club have distributed over 5,000 leaflets to people who live around the area to gather feedback on the proposed expansion on the Reds' stadium.

The plans are designed for local residents, businesses and supporters to learn more about the club's aims of increasing the Anfield capacity further following the success of the Main Stand's expansion.

Liverpool increased their iconic stadium's overall capacity to just over 54,000 when the Main Stand was officially opened for a 4-1 win over Leicester in September 2016.

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That 9,000-seat increase cost club owners Fenway Sports Group £110million to place Anfield as the fifth biggest in the Premier League before it was pushed out the top five by Tottenham Hotspur's new 62,000 stadium that opened earlier this year.

The first consultation will take place on Friday November 29 with a web portal with further information to be published online prior to the event.

The event will be held at the Kop Bar at Anfield and will take place between 4pm and 8pm for anyone who would like to raise their queries.

The second meeting will take place at the same time and venue on Monday December 2 before hosting a third the following day between midday and 4pm.

Alternatively, a pop-up stand at Anfield Road will be open from 12pm on Saturday November 30 before the Reds host Brighton in the Premier League, while another is open from 5pm on December 4 ahead of the Merseyside derby with Everton.

Liverpool were met with some resistance to plans of expansion by locals back in September and are hopeful that concerns can be allayed by public consultation.

Back in August, the Reds announced they were scrapping existing plans to develop Anfield and were instead submitting new applications to increase capacity to in excess of 60,000.

FSG allowed a September deadline over planning permission to lapse and instead concentrated on alternative options with a view to submitting what the club still regard as an "ambitious new" planning application for a larger scheme in due course.

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“The progress that has been made during ongoing feasibility studies has resulted in us being in a position to allow the outline planning permission to lapse," said Liverpool chief operating officer, Andy Hughes, at the time.

“We are committed to working with local residents, planning officials and others as we now focus on the detail behind any proposed redevelopment for Anfield Road.

“Throughout this process we have been clear that our objective is to find the best possible solution for Anfield Road and that remains the case.”

Speaking back in July, chairman Tom Werner reiterated FSG's determination to figure out a solution that increases Anfield beyond 60,000 seats.

He said: “We are still analysing the opportunity to build on Anfield Road. We are trying to figure it out.

"When we went forward with the Main Stand expansion, which I'm very proud about, we obviously wanted to do it right so we were quiet about it. In a perfect world we will be able to figure this out."