KEY figures in the campaign to stop the community stadium will get a face to face meeting with new council leader Alex Collingwood.

Groups with concerns over plans for a new Wycombe Wanderers and Wasps ground at Wycombe Air Park will be given the chance to tell new Cabinet members their views.

Wycombe District Council's new top team, following the May 5 elections and Conservative leadership change, will meet with 'stakeholders' before a crucial public meeting.

The plans for the site in Booker, Great Marlow, will be reviewed at a Cabinet meeting on July 18.

Cllr Alex Collingwood, Leader of Wycombe District Council, said: "I am aware that there has been a mixed reaction from Wycombe district residents to the community stadium and sports village proposal at Wycombe Air Park.

“While I will not be able to meet with every resident in the Wycombe district to listen their views on the proposal, I do intend to meet with the known key stakeholder groups who have publicly expressed an opinion about the community stadium and sports village project.

“Hearing first hand the various groups' issues, concerns, interest and support for the project will give my Cabinet colleagues and I an insight in to the public opinion about the proposal and will help to inform the decision that we make about the Council's future involvement with the project on 18 July."

The project includes a new sports village and the likely building of hundreds of new houses as part of the 'enabling development'.

The agenda for the meeting will be available publicly on Thursday July 7.