Luton Town: What is next for Kenilworth Road, one of the Premier League's smallest stadiums?

Oak Road in Luton is like any other street in Britain. Rows of Victorian red brick terrace houses line the road and everyone's got a front patio with a little gate.

But sandwiched in the middle are two entrances to a football stadium.

Kenilworth Road is home to Luton Town - the Premier League's newest member.

Mohammed Hashim has lived opposite the entrance for more than four decades and thankfully has been a Hatters fan for 31 years.

He says the atmosphere on match days is electric and now it'll be another level of excitement.

He told Sky News: "It gets so busy. I haven't seen a moment like this though for a very long time. It will feel strange.

"When they had Premier League clubs coming here for pre-season games, it wasn't too busy but now we're there ourselves. It's going to be so hectic but we've been waiting for this for a very, very long time."

The kind resident of Number 99 let us into her garden to show us the iron railings of the staircases leading to one of the stadium's stands for away fans.

Hovering above our heads were narrow walkways and floodlights, beyond the grey walls of the stadium was the pitch. Out of sight but on a match-day not out of mind.

She told me she didn't mind people being able to peer into her back garden as she enjoyed the atmosphere on match days.

This quirk of the street is already attracting tourists. We saw lots of people - not just Luton fans but general football ones too - who were spending a sunny Sunday admiring the club that's reentering English top flight football.

Khuram Maqsood is also a Luton Town supporter and lives adjacent to the entrance too.

"We love it, especially seeing the energy of the crowd as they walk around and chant. I love that noise and watch them all the time."

But not everyone we met here was a fan.

Residents have to move their cars off the road on match days otherwise they get towed away. Part of the reason is so that team coaches can come up the road.

Hordes of fans filter into their street almost every weekend to fill the 10,000-seater stadium that's been there for 120 years.

Sometimes it comes with issues of public disorder, some residents told us they have to clear up their front patios and back gardens after games as they're often strewn with beer bottles and rubbish.

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Mr Hashim said he recognises the problem: "We get the local police supporting us which is nice because there are some fans that cause problems sometimes, but it's not too bad."

A few doors down from him, Rita Begum's eldest son is a huge fan - but she admits she wouldn't miss the stadium if it wasn't there.

"It's nice when there are games on and everybody gets together, and you see all these people and it's exciting.

"But I know there are plans for the stadium to move further into town. I'm not sure whether I'll miss it or not - I think I'll be happy actually if they can put something else there.

"Luton needs something more than just a football ground just there."

Plans to build a new home for Luton Town are in the pipeline with the aim for it to be ready by 2026.

Until then an estimated £10m is being pumped into the club to make it "show-ready" come the start of the season which is in just 12 weeks' time.

The money is being spent on refurbishing the Bobbers Stand to meet the Premier League's requirements which include high-quality broadcast specifications.

It's an ambitious feat but all doable fans say, for a club that never stopped believing.