Proposals for a new eco football stadium at Eastington near the M5 junction will be submitted to planners within the next few days.

Dale Vince, boss of green energy provider Ecotricity, is hoping the revised scheme will be considered by Stroud District Council early in the New Year.

Mr Vince, who wants to provide a new home for his football team, Forest Green Rovers, tweeted his intentions together with this artist's impression of what the striking new wooden stadium will look like.

He said: "We're just a few days away now from submitting revised plans for Eco Park, with all development on the North side and no green tech business park - to try and break the log jam.

"Hoping for outline planning consent in early 2018."

Earlier this year Mr Vince announced he had revised his scheme which had originally included plans to build both a football stadium and eco-business park at Eastington.

Citing highways delays, he has moved the proposed new stadium from south of the A419 road to north of the highway and shelved the business park plan altogether.

But the decision may provide cold comfort for William Morris College at Eastington whose premises are just a few feet from Ecotricity's southern site. For many believe that eventually, under the "flipped" scheme, the business park will be built in a later, second phase causing major disruption to the life of the college and its vulnerable students.

Local people at Eastington say there are still too many questions unanswered, including what will eventually happen to the southern site and the effect any future business park would have on the rural nature of the area.

County council leader Cllr Mark Hawthorne has strongly rejected claims by Mr Vince that county council highways has been dragging its feet over his plans. Following Mr Vince's criticism of the county council earlier this year Cllr Hawthorne said it was a complicated application and serious reservations had been raised about the possible impact of the scheme on the local transport network.