EVESHAM United are confident the club's new ground will be ready for the start of the 2008/09 season.

Planning permission has been in place on the Cheltenham Road site for five years but chairman Jim Cockerton hopes to tie up the deal in the near future.

Construction work on the 2,500-capacity ground, which will include 300 seats, is set for November and the ground should take around three months to build.

The chairman said: "We are hoping everything will be finalised in the next couple of weeks and then we can make plans to start at the end of November.

"We will be able to move to the new ground within 12 months and I intend to kick the first ball there as chairman of the club."

The Robins, who left Common Road last year, have agreed another season as tenants at Worcester City's St George's Lane home.

Manager Paul West can start to assemble a squad he hopes will be good enough to go one better than this season and secure promotion to the Southern League Premier Division.

At the club's annual presentation evening, top scorer Mark Owen was named supporters' player of the year and Simon Fitter was named players' player.

Steven Hands scooped the manager's player of the year gong, while fellow central defender Liam Daly was named young/most improved player.

Meanwhile, ambitious Bromsgrove Rovers chairman Tom Herbert has set his sights on bringing League Two football to the Victoria Ground in five years.

Rovers defeated Evesham on their way to beating Willenhall Town in the Division One Midlands play-off final.

Victory earned them a place in the Premier Division and the chairman wants to use the success as a springboard to better things for the former Conference club.

He said: "We want to get back into the Conference as soon as possible, but my main ambition is to reach the Football League. I want to do that in five years."