The good news of a proposed new bowls centre must bring welcome relief for the long-established King Alfred Indoor Bowls Club (The Argus, March 22).

Developer Karis has pledged £2.5 million to save the city's indoor bowls sport from passing into oblivion when the King Alfred closes for redevelopment.

The proposed new venue, Hove Park Yard in the Drove Way, is surely ample to site a low-pitched, two-storey building, to include an additional home for needy rollerskating athletes and public skating.

At this early stage of planning, it would be ideal for the city planners and Karis to explore the feasibility of a new purpose-built roller skating centre for the city of Brighton and Hove.

The bid of Keep Sussex Skating is to safeguard the established sport of inline hockey, which is threatened with potential oblivion due to a shortage of suitable training facilities in the area.

The Brighton Street Stormers Hockey League Club, formerly the Brighton Preston Park Regency Blades Skater Hockey Club, has grown from strength to strength.

To sustain and develop the sport further, for the credit of the roller sports profile of our city and the county of Sussex, the hockey club requires and deserves a purpose-built centre, just as the bowlers require and deserve their new centre.

The British Roller Sports Federation would like to see a multi-roller skating sports centre developed in the area and fully supports the KSS roller sports appeal.

However, land is at a high premium in this city so a project of a two-sports-for-one venue in a public park area in Hove would be most economic for all parties concerned.

The enterprise of such a multi-sports venue will assuredly attract revenue into the city and will be a winner for both residents and visitors.

KSS appeals to the city planners and Karis to keep the bowlers and the roller skaters happy.

We could win our city the accolade of skating capital of the South.

-Patricia Ginman, Keep Sussex Skating, Brighton