Portsmouth chairman Peter Storrie has dismissed suggestions that changes to the club's plans for a new stadium will jeopardise the project.

But Storrie admits the credit crunch has meant a re-think on the business plan for the site at Horsea Island.

"Clearly with residential prices dropping, we can't sustain the income of the stadium just on that, " Storrie told BBC Radio Solent.

"The new plans have a mixture of retail and residential."

He added: "The timeframe and the ambition are exactly the same.

"The only thing that's changed is that the site will have a mixture of retail and housing, but when you look at the actual masterplan for the whole Port Solent area it looks very exciting.

"We need the support of the council and we're getting it. The relationship with them is superb, it always has been and it always will be."

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