A bowls club has vowed to continue after losing its home to a £250 million seafront redevelopment.

Architect Frank Gehry's vision to transform the King Alfred centre in Kingsway, Hove, would mean permanently shutting the indoor bowls centre.

Although developer Karis has offered £2.5million to have it relocated, no suitable new site has yet been found.

Hundreds of members of the King Alfred Indoor Bowls Club had worried the their club would close as a result and a number have left. Club secretary Alec Grisbrook, who has been inundated with calls from anxious players, said: "We are a wonderful club and we have no intention of closing."

Brighton and Hove City Council now has to find a suitable piece of its land in a city where space is at a premium.

Mr Grisbrook, 80, of Nutley Avenue, Saltdean, said the club was pleased it was being moved on - provided the council found somewhere for them to go.

He said: "Karis has said it is going to close the whole lot for two years when it carries out the work. So if we had stayed there we would definitely have been finished because we would have had to close too.

"Everyone would have gone off and joined other clubs. But this way we will have a nice new club. My only worry is where it's going to be. I don't know where the council is going to find somewhere. If they don't, we will be finished."

The King Alfred project is one of the ten biggest developments currently happening in the UK.

World-famous architect Gehry hopes to build his "crumpled" twin towers and bathe the development in a sea of vivid colours to match the character of Brighton and Hove.

A council spokesman said: "We'll do everything humanly possible to find the club a site.

"We started this whole King Alfred project for one reason - to get better sports facilities in Hove. That's what we remain committed to."

Mr Grisbrook said all that mattered to the club was the bowls. He said: "We had never heard of Gehry or the Guggenheim and we are not interested, quite frankly. All we are interested in is the people and ratepayers of Hove have a facility to play bowls."

Karis managing director Josh Arghiros said: "We are really delighted the council has sanctioned the next stage of design. This allows Frank the opportunity to create the wonderful project we are all waiting for."