Liverpool's chief executive Rick Parry has denied claims by local politicians that they may consider sharing their planned new ground with Everton.

City council leader Mike Storey had claimed that the teams were "warming" to the idea, but Parry insists Liverpool's position has not changed.

"We're conscious the majority of our fans are strongly opposed to ground sharing," Parry told the club website.

"The time has come to draw a line under this whole subject and move on."

Liverpool have spent a long time working on plans for a new 60,000-seater stadium near Anfield at Stanley Park, and did discuss the possibility of sharing it, but they could not come to a satisfactory agreement.

They hope to have the stadium ready for the start of the 2006-07 season, and Parry said so much time and money had already been put into the club's plans that they were not now going to change them now.

"Several million pounds expenditure and a huge amount of hard work have got us to the point where our planning application is about to be considered," he said.

"That planning application is based on single club use, a point we have consistently communicated to both the North West Development Agency and City Council. "