Campaigners have won a partial victory after the final boundary of the South Downs National Park was unveiled.

The boundary for the national park has been drawn up by officers at the Countryside Agency and will be discussed by board members tomorrow.

If they raise no objections, the agency will prepare a designation order which will be sent to the Secretary of State for the area to be officially declared a national park.

Sixty areas were examined by the agency. Thirty have been included in the boundary and 30 excluded.

Village Way North at Falmer, the proposed site of the new Brighton and Hove Albion stadium, and Lewes town both remain within the boundary.

The revised boundary has been welcomed by the South Downs Campaign group.

It highlighted nine areas which have been included.

These are Ditchling; Greatham village; land around Blackmoor; Woolmer Forest; land near West Tisted; Slindon Common; Shillinglee Park near Plaistow; Titnore Wood, Worthing; Green Ridge and Coney Hill, Brighton.

Chairman of the campaign Robin Crane said: "The proposed changes are very much down to the strength of the campaigns mounted by local people to have their areas included in the National Park.

"It shows that the Countryside Agency has listened to what we and others have been saying."

The group is concerned that the boundary will be drawn back around Arundel to exclude Tortington Common, to make way for the proposed bypass.

Mr Crane said the area should be included because, by the Countryside Agency's own admission, it meets the criteria needed.

If local authorities oppose the designation order, the secretary of state will hold a public inquiry. This means the area may not become designated a national park for two years.