Horsham directors will decide later this week on their next move after their plan to build a new 4,000 seat stadium at Holbrook was unanimously rejected by local planners.

But chairman Frank King admitted that the club might be forced to look for an alternative home in the town and a meeting with Horsham District Council to discuss that possibility will take place later this month.

King said: "One or two of the directors think we should appeal against the decision but I'm not sure that would get us too far.

"I think the local residents have made it pretty clear they don't want us so even if we ended up there it wouldn't be a happy relationship."

Horsham brought the Holbook site without planning permission for £2.4million in 2006 after selling their Queen Street ground, which they vacated in May, to a housing developer.

They have agreed a one-year groundshare with Worthing for this season but will need to give the Ryman League concrete assurances about their long-term future by next February if they are to be allowed to extend the groundshare for a second year.

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