The plans for a 'Stadium for Cornwall' have won a reprieve after councillors voted to defer three supermarket planning applications.

All the applications will now be heard together at a later date after councillors voted to defer the three applications on the planning agenda this morning at New County Hall.

The vote went down to the wite with 11 voting to defer and 10 against.

Cornwall Councillors had been urged not to "kill off plans for a Stadium for Cornwall" when they meet to vote on three rival supermarket planning applications this morning.

Inox Group, which already has planning permission for a Stadium at Threemilestone, said it was "astonished" that councillors were not being given the opportunity to consider plans that would pay for the stadium during an extraordinary planning committee meeting to decide on a new supermarket for the city.

Retail analysts have said that only one more supermarket should be built to the west of Truro.

Inox submitted its own supermarket-led planning application, pledging to ring-fence the proceeds for the construction of a stadium via a legally binding Section 106 planning agreement if approved.

The developer said that councillors should wait until the application could be fully considered alongside the three other supermarket schemes.

Rob Saltmarsh, managing director of Inox Group, said: “We are grateful that after a thorough and high quality debate, members have voted to consider all four applications together so that a full comparative assessment can be made.

"We are committed to working with all to ensure that this can happen as quickly as possible, and we look forward to our proposals being presented to a future committee. Today’s decision keeps alive our aspiration to deliver a Stadium for Cornwall, and the hopes of thousands of people who want to see it become a reality.”