"Name and address supplied" (Letters, January 30) was clearly not at the same meeting I was. Brighton and Hove City Council has not "decided to demolish the King Alfred and replace it with housing".

The council has made it abundantly clear it plans to develop new sports facilities on the site.

It is investigating how to pay for them and one option is a new housing development on the site.

The whole point of public meetings of the King Alfred Member Task Group is to demonstrate the process of decision-making.

No conclusions have been reached yet on the best option for the site because the detailed work has not been done.

Most crucially, the public consultation on options has not yet happened.

Citygrove was not the consultant on the previous scheme. It was the developer, was paid nothing and is on record as saying it lost hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Expert consultants are needed to ensure the council gets value for money. They have expertise on what has worked across the country and the expectations of other public funders such as the Lottery.

This is a city full of sports enthusiasts who would love to see a new sports centre on the site and have strongly supported the process the council is now going through.

There will be continuing public meetings and consultation. I hope "name and address supplied" will work with those enthusiasts to help us all get the best outcome possible.

-Sarah Tanburn, Director, Culture and Regeneration, Brighton and Hove City Council