A planning meeting to discuss Forest Green Rovers' new ground has now been pushed back 'for a few months'.

The plans to build the world's greenest football stadium, near to J13 on the M5 will now have to wait after the decision was taken by Stroud District Council.

A Stroud District Council spokesperson said: “This is a finely balanced and complex revised application which is contrary to Stroud District Council’s adopted Local Plan. That plan sets out where development should take place up to 2031.

“There is a legal presumption that decisions should be made in accordance with the Local Plan unless other material considerations indicate otherwise.

“We expect the Development Control Committee to consider the application in a few months time.

“Given that we are dealing with a current application which is finely balanced and complex, we are unable to comment further at this stage.

“Responses to consultations can be viewed on the council’s website.”

Dale Vince has since responded with a statement on his Facebook page, he said: "Early last November we met with the Council and agreed the final details of the planning conditions required and set a date for the 12th of February for the planning committee to make a decision.

"In early January this year we were told that the date could not be met and that the conditions were now not agreed.

"We currently have no agreement on conditions and no date for a decision by the Council - nearly four years after we first submitted the idea of Eco Park, which is a development that has so much to offer to Stroud, for generations to come.

"I don’t understand why this has happened again (the cancelled date) but I am meeting with the Council this week to try and get to the bottom of it. If SDC don’t want the project I wish they would just say so, and we can (all) spend our time and energy of other things."