In August 1999 I wrote saying with the loss of the chance of a stadium on the Brighton Station site, I feared that the team will find itself forced to stay at Withdean or have nowhere to go.
The recent consultants' report branding plans for the Falmer site as unworkable came as no surprise to some of us.
However, I have to qualify yet again the recent Argus editorial which comments that the referendum "overwhelmingly" endorsed the site at Falmer, and recommended "money must be found" to help Brighton and Hove Albion build its stadium there.
To again clarify: we are talking about more than 60 per cent of more than 30 per cent (in my reckoning about 28 per cent of local residents).
But more importantly, I hope you are not suggesting the Brighton and Hove Council should underwrite the football stadium?
Experience of local authorities getting involved in financing football stadia suggests this can be a bottomless pit and with the existing problem of resources, I can think of other pressing priorities for tax payers' money.
The finances of the project and the implications for future budgets of Brighton and Hove down the years must be made absolutely clear and there must be no loopholes through which future generations can be caught.
-Councillor Joyce Edmond Smith, Bentham Road, Brighton
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