City status did not "put house prices up" in Brighton and Hove (The Argus, April 4). This crude analysis ignores the fact that property prices have gone up hugely in the whole outer London region.
Inverness and Wolverhampton, who won city status at the same time as Brighton and Hove, have not experienced similar rises. So logic dictates it's not city status which puts up house prices but something else. That is why prices in Burgess Hill are rising sharply, as reported. Prices surged massively in the late Eighties, when we had no city status.
The real reason is high prices in London and the perception of quick train services to the capital. Perhaps any newly-arrived readers will tell us if they moved here because of city status?
-Coun Ken Bodfish, Leader, Brighton and Hove City Council
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