Plans for 150 new homes and a sports hub - which one football team says is crucial to its survival - are set to go on display.
A public exhibition of the proposals is being hosted at the club’s existing ground, at the Eden Estates Stadium in New Hythe Lane, Larkfield, on Thursday, June 27.
Visitors are welcome between 3pm and 7pm.
There is a second chance to visit on the following Saturday morning, June 29, between 10am and 1pm.
The firm said it would like to hear residents’ views before finalising a planning application to submit to Tonbridge and Malling council.
At present, the proposals for land at the old golf course, which closed in 2017, show a 4,500 sq ft clubhouse, two floodlit 3G pitches for year-round matches and training, and 250-person capacity stands.
There are also plans for a golf driving range and padel tennis courts, with access off the A228.
But there will be enabling development of 100 extra homes also on the site, and a further 50 homes will be built on the football club’s current grounds.
John Michel, chairman of Larkfield and New Hythe Football Club, which won promotion to the SCEFL Premier Division in May, said: “Put simply, we need to relocate the club to survive.”
The issue for the club has become even more urgent following the unexpected announcement this week of the closure of the K Sports facilities at the Cobdown grounds in Ditton.
Larkfield and New Hythe has previously used the 3G pitches there for training.
The club’s junior teams chairman, Russell Jeffery, said the “totally-out-of-the-blue” closure had left the club in the lurch.
He said: “We really need the Oast Park hub pushed through as soon as possible.
“If we can’t get winter training sorted out within the next two years, our club - which has been around since 1961 - is going to struggle big time.”
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The new Oast Park Sports Hub will be just under a mile from the football club’s current ground just off New Hythe Lane.
