Lewes District Council has agreed to drop its High Court action against the proposed Community Stadium at Falmer if the government agrees to re-examine a number of specific points that it feels were overlooked in the original planning application.
It also demands that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has no involvement in any new decision that might originate from his old department.
Former Education Minister Ruth Kelly has been promoted to the new department of Communities and Local Government, split off from the old Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), and is now responsible for the decision on Falmer.
Her office has indicated that she will be looking at all the evidence afresh after the ODPM admitted that they made a fundamental error in their decision in October 2005 when they stated that the entire site was within the Brighton & Hove development boundary. Part of the site falls within the Lewes District Council planning authority.
Lewes District Council has listed 16 specific challenges including whether the stadium is in the national interest and the effect that it will have on the strategic gap between Falmer Village and Brighton.
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