Nick Hearn (Letters, January 17) asks why the Albion are hoping to build a 22,000-seat stadium near Falmer when, in the Premiership, Mohamed al-Fayed's Fulham appear to be changing their mind about building a 28,000-seater stadium at their Craven Cottage home. "What is the difference?" Mr Hearn cries.

There are plenty of differences. The main one is the emergence from the shadows of a far more profitable scheme to build luxury Harrods flats on the Fulham FC site. Given the owners of the club have apparently identified large, alternative sites to play their football on, the accountants obviously feel it makes more sense to capitalise on Craven Cottage's fantastic riverside location by building £1 million apartments on it.

Is Mr Hearn really suggesting people will pay £1 million for flats overlooking the A27 dual-carriageway?

In every way, the situation at Fulham has absolutely nothing in common with the Falmer stadium project.

Either Mr Hearn is attempting to muddy the waters or he has not done his research. Fortunately, the planning inquiry inspector will be both even-handed and well-informed.

-Simon Levenson, Livingstone Road, Hove