With planning permission for new dressing rooms granted today (18th December), the club have decided to press ahead with their long term aim of returning to the semi-professional ranks.

The application was submitted to the FA today and Heys will now face a ground inspection and be given details of what they must do to meet the criteria.

It is already known that dressing rooms will be one of the requirements and once permission is finally rubber stamped the club hope to have the modular buildings on site quickly. They will then have to have them fitted out and ready to use by 31st March which is the deadline for all works to be carried out.

Floodlights are another of the criteria for promotion. Heys have planning permission for lights and are on the waiting list for lights under the FA Shared Access scheme whereby Telecoms companies install lights with inbuilt telephone signal transmitters. Adie Moran Park has been identified as a site of interest to the companies and the club are waiting for final approval.

Covered standing accommodation for 50 people will also be needed but Heys are hopeful they can meet all the criteria which also includes the need for the team to finish in the top five of the Manchester League.

The club last competed at North West Counties level in 1986 before ground grading issues at their old Grimshaws ground on Heys Road forced them to withdraw from the league.

Since then the club have moved to their current base at Sandgate Road and built the ground up from scratch to it’s present state.

The ground was renamed Adie Moran Park earlier this year after their former player , manager and Chairman who was instrumental in so much of the development of the ground before his untimely death in 2007.

His ambition was to return the club to the Counties and the club are now embarking on the busy programme of works to make that a reality whilst looking to the people of Prestwich to get behind and support them as they prepare for a new era at the club.