Liverpool City Council will convene a special planning committee hearing next week [Tuesday 23 February] to have the final say in granting or refusing planning permission for Everton and their proposed new 52,888 capacity stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.
A Liverpool City Council Planning Committee Report was released this evening which recommends the application to build on the World Heritage Site be approved.
The report has been prepared for councillors who will make up the planning committee next week and includes the merits of the application as well as highlighting any objections and a final recommendation.
At the committee meeting the report will be introduced and planning committee members - made up of Liverpool City Councillors - can ask questions of the officer, Peter Jones, who authored the Planning Committee Report.
Everton will make their own representations to the committee before other speakers are able to make statements while members can speak for - or against - the new stadium application.
Finally the committee will make one of three decisions: recommendation for approval, recommendation for refusal or a deferment if members need more information.
Should Everton be given their expected approval the application is referred - as a matter of standard procedure - to Robert Jenrick, Secretary of the State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government [MHCLG].
MHCLG then have 21 days to review the application and make their final decision.
