Dundee Football Club have submitted a proposal to build a new stadium next to Camperdown Leisure Park.

The Dens Park side have submitted a screening and scoping enquiry to Dundee City Council.

The site is just off the A90, less than three miles west of their current stadium.

The application has been submitted by Dark Blue Property Holdings, a company with two directors - Texas-based Dundee owner Tim Keyes and the club's managing director, John Nelms.

It comes a year after Keyes and Nelms bought an area of land next to Dundee Ice Arena for £1.2m.

Leadingham Jameson Rogers and Hynd Architects has been employed to design the stadium.

The club revealed a further pre-application notice would soon be submitted, which would trigger a period of public consultation.

A formal bid for planning permission is expected in December 2017 with the designs predicted to be completed in the spring of next year.

Bob Hynd, of Leadingham Jameson Rogers and Hynd, said: "We are delighted to have been appointed as architects for this exciting and ambitious development.

"We have now been in discussion with Dundee Council regarding the concept of a stadium on part of this site for over a year and would like to thank them for the assistance they have given us."