How come, when people talk about compromise, they often mean for others to do so, so they can get their own way?

A classic example was Tony Mernagh's letter (October 20) asking the RSPCA to give up Braypool "for the good of the city".

Doing so would compromise more than the RSPCA, however.

Braypool is also home to five community sports pitches and several cricket pitches.

In a city which goes on and on about being desperately short of sports facilities, how can people possibly suggest concreting over them?

And concreting over Braypool would mean losing more of our water supply, at a time when we need more, not less.

Braypool lies in the Sussex Downs, an area of outstanding natural beauty, and would be part of the South Downs National Park.

It is an important part of the landscape, north of the A27 bypass, in an area we were promised would see no further development.

If Braypool was built upon, it would inevitably lead to further development.

-Chris Todd, Brighton, Hove and Mid-Sussex Friends of the Earth,