AFC Wimbledon plan to go home to Plough Lane

AFC Wimbledon are set to reveal multi-million pound plans to return to Plough Lane - and Merton Council are backing the scheme.

The newly-promoted Conference club, formed in 2002 when the original Wimbledon announced they were moving to Milton Keynes, want to develop 6,000-capacity Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium.

The stadium is next door to Wimbledon's former Plough Lane ground, which the club left in 1991 and was later demolished to make way for flats.

AFC play at Kingsmeadow in nearby Kingston but the Dons Trust, which runs the club, hope to move closer to home.

A board spokesman said: "Moving back to Merton with a joint development of the greyhound stadium would be the ideal solution.

"We have developed a proposition for developing a stadium for us on the site. We have talked to Merton planners throughout the process and they support it in principle."

Wimbledon, who will be playing in the Blue Square Premier next season, hope to win promotion to the Football League and want to sign full-time professionals to replace 10 part-timers.