Leyton Orient has welcomed a House of Lords committee's call for unity over the future use of the Olympic Stadium.

The committee, charged with overseeing the Olympic and Paralympic legacy, said The O's should be allowed to use the stadium in a bid to use a national asset "to the full".

Orient and West Ham had been criticised by a peer committee for behaving like “children in the playground squabbling over who goes down the slide first as far as the stadium is concerned”.

Barry Hearn, Orient chairman, said he would be happy to sit down with West Ham and the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) to work out an arrangement which suits all parties.

Highlighting the need to maximise the use of the stadium for the community and value for money for the taxpayer, Mr Hearn said the Brisbane Road club still wants a groundshare deal with the Hammers.

“All we’ve ever wanted is fair access and to share a national asset funded by the taxpayer,” he said.

“There can be no doubt that West Ham moving so close to Orient will have a financially detrimental effect on us and our ability to deliver this community work.”

He asked the LLDC for clarity over what it would take for the O’s to be able to share the stadium.

“It has been said that Orient did not bid enough to cover its costs of using the stadium, but we were bidding within our means and against ourselves – we do not know what the LLDC want from us because they will not tell us. So we ask them again, publicly, to say what we have to pay to share the stadium, a national asset which is on our doorstep,” he said.

The club is writing to the LLD today to ask for a meeting about the stadium’s future.