ANOTHER day, another set of questions over buildings and development in our communities.

So we learn a key reason for the recommended rejection of the new hotel at the American Express Community Stadium in Falmer is on aesthetics.

While hard to agree, we would perhaps understand that point more clearly if that very same Brighton and Hove City Council had not just unveiled a plan to replace one eyesore at King Alfred with potentially another one.

It has already been admitted by the council leader that aesthetics were not to the fore when it came to that project.

But perhaps more brow-furrowing is how East Sussex County Council has contrived to propose to sell a prime location in Lewes to a spiritual cult at a knockdown price.

The cash-strapped council could have realised upwards of £1.3 million for the St Anne’s School site.

But instead it stuck fast on a determination to hand it over for “community” use and got less than half that.

What’s more stupefying is that the only group who fitted the criteria was an obscure New Age group called Subud, which numbers around 100 members in a population of 30,000 and had what might be described as an interesting philosophy.

If you want to hire a meeting room there in the future it is Subud’s coffers you will be swelling.

Instead of taking a step back, various county council working groups ploughed on regardless and now tell us we should move on and that there’s nothing to see.

Actually what we should do is review this decision at the highest level of the council before proceeding with this highly questionable scheme.