A call to improve “unfit for purpose” facilities at Aberystwyth Town Football Club, allowing it to “maintain the highest level of football” county-wide has been given the go-ahead by planners.

The club was given the green light at 11 November meeting of Ceredigion County Council’s development management committee for a scheme that will see the demolition of the existing stand, construction of a new terrace, TV gantry, and turnstile at the club’s Park Avenue home ground.

Planning documents said the scheme will see the demolition of the 1920s-built stand, the erection of a terrace running approximately half the length of the pitch with covered roof to accommodate around 320 spectators and dug-outs, the erection of a new tv gantry, the erection of a new roof on the Narks Corner terrace area and the erection of a turnstile allowing access to the ground from the southern end of Park Avenue.

Documents said that “Aberystwyth Town FC have been located at this site within the settlement of Aberystwyth for over 140 years and are looking to improve their facilities, some of which are in a state of deterioration and unfit for purpose, to enable the club to maintain the highest level of football not only within the town and immediate area but in the county as well.”

Members heard Natural Resources Wales had identified the site as “at significant flood risk”.

The report for members concluded: “The application represents an opportunity to improve facilities at the football ground to enable high level matches to be played in Aberystwyth to the benefit of not only the immediate community but on a county-wide basis also.

“Despite the objection from NRW on flooding grounds it is the opinion that the scheme can be supported.”

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Members backed the officer recommendation of approval.