Everton fans will have to wait until next year to find out if the club’s new £500m stadium will be approved by planners after Liverpool council confirmed the decision has been delayed.

Proposals for the Toffees’ 53,000-seat new home at Liverpool’s grade II-listed Bramley-Moore Dock were expected to be either approved or rejected by the end of this year with a main contractor lined up fpr the project designed by US architet Dan Meis and London-based Pattern Design..

In an update to supporters in August, the club’s stadium development director Colin Chong said that the sheer size of the scheme’s planning application - one of the largest ever received by the council - meant that a special planning committee might have to be convened “towards the end of the year” to make a decision on the scheme.

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