Once again Voice Of The Argus (June 6) is hopelessly biased in favour of the stadium development at Falmer, regardless of the devastating impact on the local environment and community.

It says that "although there are problems over access, finance and the stadium's impact on the area, they are dwarfed by the huge benefits it would bring to this part of Brighton".

Huge benefits my foot. It would involve the destruction and urbanisation of a beautiful greenfield area within the AONB/National Park when there are alternative brownfield sites.

The construction of a vast 22,000-seater stadium with a huge coach and car park, has massive implications for noise and traffic pollution, let alone the mayhem that will be caused in an already heavily congested area.

It would bring unfair discrimination against university students who expect to be able to study and use library and computer-centre facilities in peace at weekends and weekday evenings and to come and go without being intimidated by vast crowds.

These are not benefits but disasters.

What would, in fact, be dwarfed by the stadium development is not the problems over access, finance and the stadium's impact on the area but the University of Brighton campus at Falmer itself.

I have witnessed a site visit by the inspector, where we finally saw demonstrated just how high and dominant the stadium structure will be and how deceptive the computer-simulated diagrams have been in presenting it as a pretty little complex that will nestle appealingly into the landscape.

Thank goodness the University of Brighton has at last spoken out against the attempts of the proposers to stampede the application through without having properly evaluated all the implications.

Access, finance and the stadium's impact on the community are not minor problems to be brushed aside.

Since Albion have just been relegated and have little cash, it would be utterly irresponsible of the University of Brighton council to continue with this proposal without bringing the club's business plan properly into the public domain so it can be assessed for its realism.

The tragedy is the Albion would have a lot more money in its coffers if its directors had not so doggedly pursued this particular site rather than, as government policy indicates, one of the brownfield sites available.

-JA Robinson (Mrs), Falmer