MAIDSTONE United’s chairman has launched an astonishing broadside against Maidstone Borough Council and has threatened to sue them.

Paul Bowden Brown says he will pull the plug on plans to build a new town centre stadium unless the council takes a decision on the planning application soon.

“If they don’t buck their ideas up I’ll sue them,” a furious Bowden Brown said this week.

The club are set to hold clear-the-air talks with the council after being rocked by demands for archaeological and ecological surveys into the football pitch at Whatman Way.

The Stones’ chairman says unless a decision is made about the stadium soon, he will withdraw his planning application and call in the lawyers.

He argued the club had gone to huge expense to comply with requests he described as a “total waste of time”.

“I handed in the archaeological survey and I haven’t even had the courtesy of a reply,” he said.

Bowden Brown went on to issue a clear warning his patience is running out: “If we are asked to produce more information I will refuse and withdraw our planning application because the only reason, as far as I can understand, behind this would be bloody-minded bureaucracy by certain council employees.

“I will then formally take task with the council over certain members of staff and their totally unprofessional attitude.”

An exasperated Bowden Brown claimed the stadium project was being delayed by “unrealistic demands”.

“I do not expect the council to just agree to our application, but I have agreed to all their demands. Some have cost the club and myself a lot of money, which in hindsight has been wasted.

“It has been proved they were not required and were only the whims of individuals trying to make names for themselves.”

The next meeting of the planning committee is on Thursday, but there is still no indication as to whether or not the application will be considered, despite the fact the plans were submitted in April.