In challenging the Falmer decision, Lewes District Council cannot expect the court to substitute its own decision for that of John Prescott. It is not allowed to do so.

It merely puts the protagonists back to where they were before the appeal, which is treated as pending.

Would we then get another public enquiry? Surely no one wants to go through all that again.

As Chairman of the Seaford branch of the Lewes Constituency Conservative Association, I find many of the decisions of Mr Blair's government do not have my approval but, in the end, controversies such as Falmer must have a conclusion.

To most people, the result of the public enquiry would have been the final decision.

I hope this issue is in the past and the club has started building by the next local elections in 2007.

However, if it is still rumbling on my party should have a policy to bring the saga to a quick conclusion.

I just hope the club can maintain its current status through all this.

-Tony Nicholson, Seaford