Western Cape sport MEC Whitey Jacobs said the recommendation was adopted at a Minmec meeting of Eastern Cape sport minister Makhenkesi Stofile and his provincial counterparts in Durban on Thursday.
Earlier this week Helen Zille warned that objections to the project could result in the city losing the semi-final to Johannesburg.
Jacobs said all the stadiums being prepared for the tournament had to be ready by the end of 2009 and for this to happen construction had to start in January next year.
This had led to discussion in the Minmec on whether Green Point would meet the January deadline, in the light of a threat by the Green Point Common Association to go to court.
"The feeling in the Minmec was that if the matter goes to court, it goes out of our hands," he said.
The Minmec had resolved to recommend that cabinet should take a formal decision that all stadiums had to be finished by the end of 2009 "and that if residents of Green Point take the matter to court, another venue be found outside the province of the Western Cape".
One implication of this was that practice venues being planned for elsewhere in Cape Town would not be built either.
"I'm hoping that it doesn't reach that stage, because it's going to affect lots of things," he said.
"We hope it doesn't come to the point that the cabinet takes a decision that another stadium be used."
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