Chris Bell says an alternative location at Newhaven as the site of the Albion's new stadium is a non-starter (Letters, October 11).

I would advise him to look closely at the bottom of the Football League's Division One table, where he will find a club called Milton Keynes Dons. Up to last season, this club was called Wimbledon Football Club. The League allowed the club to change its name and move its ground 62 miles from Croydon to Milton Keynes. Having set that precedent, based upon the premise there was no available land in south London to build a stadium, the League is hardly in a position to refuse the same plea by Brighton and Hove Albion.

If you take the concept that a new ground should be positioned at a point near to a major road and a railway, it means in Sussex alone, there are at least seven possible sites which could be considered.

In a 62-mile radius, Southampton, London, Southend or Margate would come within this catchment area, which would provide a possibility of hundreds of possible sites. I am not saying this should happen but there are still numerous alternatives which should be considered.

Building a football stadium on a greenfield site on the South Downs has always been a non-starter but Newhaven is certainly something that was, and is still, both a realistic and possible alternative to Falmer.

-Don McBeth, Brighton