Letters

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Dear Editor

I am writing in response to Matthew Costin's letter in the Bulletin of 30 June.

The siting of a 25,000-seater stadium at Falmer is not going to make this university a more attractive place to come. There is, and has been, a lot of misinformation about the proposed stadium.

Firstly, Falmer is not the only place the stadium could be built. There is land next to Brighton station and there is land around the old Shoreham power station. Both these sites are brownfield.

The site at Falmer is on a downland field next to a village in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The real NIMBYs in this instance are Brighton and Hove Council, who don't want the stadium in the town.

Secondly, it would not be the end of the football club if they were unable to come to Falmer. This is just emotive nonsense. Brighton and Hove Albion are doing very well at Withdean, and would do well wherever they went.

I urge anyone with an interest in saving the Downs from the developers to write to Brighton and Hove Council, Local Plan Team, Environment & Housing, Town Hall, Hove, BN3 3BQ. You should object to policy SR25. Your objection must reach them before 6 November, so time is short.

Yours faithfully,
Simon Barnes, Desktop Systems

Dear Editor

Thank you for printing the delightful photo of Paul Vincent's wedding in the Bulletin of 20 October.

But I do have one small 'complaint': I never knew I was as bald as I appear to be! Is there no University policy on gratuitous expose of bald pates? If not, should there be ?

Yours faithfully
Gavin Ashenden, University Chaplain