John Burt (Letters, June 20) claims that issues were ignored at Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee meeting.

I assume he means the ingenious designs created by the Brighton University students, allegedly showing a stadium in 37 locations around Brighton and Hove.

If the three that were shown to the meeting are any indication of the quality of the others, I thought the points they made were given more relevance than they deserved.

Just how close to Nimby can you get than the proposal from the Falmer residents that the stadium be built at Wild Park?

Would this not use the same park-and-ride sites, the same road network and the same rail line as the Falmer proposal? The only difference is it would be further from Falmer village.

The other sites shown were Brighton station (which is already subject to a planning proposal and even the Greens don't want it there) or, perhaps the most "creative" of all, Withdean stadium (which clearly ignored the problems caused by the railway tunnel in terms of human access and egress and managed to build the stadium on top of the existing nature reserve).

I am not sure to what planning brief these students were working to or if a brief as detailed as real developments need was ever provided.

However, the end results ignored so many issues they have to be viewed as they were intended to be - as a project towards a qualification, not as real, viable alternatives to the proposal which was on the table.

This is typical of the stadium objectors' tactics - try to avoid facts getting in the way of a good piece of mudslinging and issue-fudging.

-Bill Smythe, smythe_bill@hotmail.com