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A brand new hotel could be built just minutes away from Everton's planned new stadium on Bramley Moore Dock .

A planning application has been submitted for the eight storey hotel, which would be located just next to Sandhills station.

The station is the closest on the Merseyrail network to Everton's potential new home - and it comes as the Blues prepare to submit their own plans for the new stadium to Liverpool council, in the coming months.

The hotel application, which has been put in by property investment firm Knightsbridge, includes a bar and restaurant, as well as 174 bedrooms.

A statement included with the application says the hotel will be a 'positive contemporary development' for the area near the station.

It reads: "The scheme provides a strong presence and will act as a visual key on this prominent site.

"The proposed high quality development will be a positive addition to the local community and represents a viable opportunity to develop a site for a suitable use for its prominent location.

"The scheme is an attractive feature that will provide local buildings of interest.

"The high quality design and landscaping will look to ensure this sits well within the local context and not just be a neutral addition but a positive contemporary development in the area."

The Toffees recently released images and video of how the stunning waterfront design could look once it's finished.

The club are proposing a single-tier home end that will house 13,000 Evertonians with supporters as close to the pitch as regulations allow.

Announcing the release of the plans earlier in the summer, chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale called the step an 'important milestone' for the club.

She said: “Our proposed stadium design takes its inspiration from both our city’s maritime history and from our Club’s rich heritage and traditions.

“It is, first and foremost, a stadium for football, for our passionate fans and for our players.

"A stadium that gives Everton Football Club a platform for growth both commercially and socially."

Feedback from fans on the stadium design has so far been positive, but the proposals will still have to go before planners before they can move ahead.