Proposals will be tabled today to get Colchester's community stadium off the ground.
Colchester Council bosses were due to unveil their plan to Colchester United during a lunchtime meeting.
Council leader John Jowers hopes an agreement will be reached to finally get the Cuckoo Farm project moving after 8,000 people signed a Gazette petition backing the schemes.
He said: "We need to get this highly important project moving along one way or another. We will be working out ways in which we can do things."
He and council chief executive Adrian Pritchard will begin negotiations by outlining the top secret scheme.
It consists of the technical steps to be taken to overcome planning, finance, highways and parking issues.
But Mr Jowers says it will have to be a "two-way thing" to reach an agreement, and everyone needs to get on board.
Club chief executive Marie Partner said the Gazette's seven-week campaign had played a big part in the progress. Thousands have signed our petitions, and sent in letters of support saying how the new stadium will rejuvenate the town.
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Published Tuesday, November 16, 2004
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