I wonder if people actually pay attention to planning applications and public inquiries?

Recent correspondents should note the following: First, there is no hotel in any shape or form in Brighton and Hove Albion's planning application for a stadium at Village Way north. None whatsoever, really. If they'd wanted one, it would have been there.

Second, the public inquiry into alternative sites, the one the Nimbys always ignore, concluded building a stadium at Sheepcote Valley would be something of a disaster for the city, as traffic on a match day would bring it to a standstill.

Is that protecting the environment?

I don't think so.

The pro-Sheepcote brigade, who seem mostly to be residents of Falmer and Woodingdean, should also be aware that if a stadium were ever to be built at Sheepcote, as an Albion fan who doesn't live in Brighton, I very much do not look forward to queuing through both their villages in order to get to games.

I wouldn't have to do that with the stadium at Falmer, as I'd be able to continue to use the very convenient Mill Road park-and-ride.

  • Andrew Palmer, Elgin Gardens, Guildford