DETAILED documents unveiled by planners today revealed the full scale of proposals to redevelop York City's football ground.

A total of 93 homes are planned for the 4.2-acre site at Bootham Crescent, which has been York City's home since 1932.

The dwellings include 48 apartments, and 45 houses, of three and two-and-a-half storeys high, which will radically alter the area's skyline.

A mixture of three and four-bedroom town houses as well as two-bedroomed flats, will enclose an area of public open space.

A proportion of affordable houses will be included in the development as well as a central children's play area.

Access for vehicles will be through a traffic calmed crossroads at the junction of St Olave's Road and Grosvenor Road and parking will be created for 123 vehicles.

Developers say the design of the layout and individual buildings is "sympathetic" to the surrounding area and reflects the local street pattern and the terraced nature of nearby homes.

Planning consultant Michael Courcier and Partners Ltd, of Bolton, said in a statement that the redevelopment will result in "significant benefit" to the city.

The statement says: "The local environment will be improved through the relocation of a visually inappropriate use which generates problems of noise and congestion and by a replacement use which is much more suitable in the local environment.

"The local community will be enhanced through further mixed residential development and the provision of public open space.

"Finally, the redevelopment will enable the Football Club to relocate to a new stadium within the city, offering significant advantages for the club, its supporters and other residents of York."

Submission of the plan was delayed for a traffic impact assessment by City of York Council officers.

City planning officer Mick Britton said he expected the complex application to take longer than the normal eight weeks to be processed.

He said: "This is square one, they have now reached first base."

Updated: 15:05 Wednesday, August 28, 2002