Why has Brighton and Hove City Council postponed the station site planning application meeting, scheduled for April 16?

The developer, NEC, had said it would not make any more changes to its proposal many weeks ago, despite its application clearly not fitting in with the council's own planning brief.

Is it because neither the council nor NEC expected such strong public opposition to the plans?

And would the council have agreed to postpone the meeting if the campaigners against the development wanted "extra time" to prepare their case?

It strikes me as a case of goalposts moving in one direction only.

-Erica Smith, Lansdowne Place, Hove