BRISTOL'S Labour leader Peter Hammond has called for a fresh start on the future of Ashton Vale by holding a brand new public inquiry.
Planning permission has been given for Bristol City FC's new 30,000-seat stadium on a former landfill tip near the David Lloyd sports centre.
But campaigners are fighting to get the 42-acre site registered as a town green to stop any development.
Both sides are currently waiting for a judge's ruling on whether a legal challenge can go ahead.
Mr Hammond said: "It's time for a break from the failures that have led to the current mess and uncertainty.
"It should never have got to this stage.
"Compounding the confusion have been the premature pronouncements by the council's deputy leader across the media. Those interventions have been inappropriate and unhelpful and should not have been made.
"Without further delay the council should announce that the entire matter should be referred back to a fresh inspector who would have access to the original and 'new' evidence and the process commenced again."
Council deputy leader Simon Cook, a Liberal Democrat, said Mr Hammond was engaging in cheap politicking which was totally inappropriate and did nothing for council, the football club or the people of Bristol.
He said: "It's nonsense to suggest that we can do anything right now when we are currently waiting for a High Court decision on whether a judicial review should be dismissed.
"We have not heard from Mr Hammond before – if he had anything to say, then why didn't he make his comments after the Rights of Way Committee, which includes Labour councillors, made its decision last June?
"I think the decision they took was exactly right."
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