Alton Football Club has come up with a second idea to improve facilities for spectators at the Anstey Park Enclosure.

In November it received landlord’s consent from Alton Town Council to progress a proposal for removable awnings and curtains to provide protection from the weather for fans wishing to stand on the decking next to the clubhouse.

Five steel posts and the clubhouse wall would be used to support steel canopies to hold the awnings and curtains, which would be stored away when the weather was “uneventful”.

The club’s additional plan would make conditions better for fans with disabilities.

An Alton FC spokesperson said: “The idea is to remove roughly the middle third of the bank behind the goal and create stepped hard standing, very similar to what we already have behind the dugouts side which remains from before the Enclosure was upgraded in 2016.

“A new terrace would have ramped access for wheelchair users to get to the highest point and enjoy the football.

“Although we do have limited wheelchair space within the existing seated stand, it doesn’t offer much of - if any - view of the pitch, being so low down.

“We have very loosely discussed the idea with a couple of people at Treloar’s and they loved the idea.

“It is the football club’s intention to bring Treloar’s into the project in some way to enable it to welcome even more students to being able to come along to watch games.”

The club said it was “actively seeking” to apply for planning permission for the decking canopy, and would include drawings of the proposed open terrace in order to ask for planning permission for that simultaneously.

Alton Town Council will discuss the request for a variation of its landlord’s consent to include the terrace plan at its meeting in Alton Town Hall on March 5 at 7pm.