So the Place to Be campaign has achieved its ends and won the name of "city".

Perhaps it is not surprising, given the power wielded by the city campaign and its easy access to the corridors of power.

We are glad to have disagreed and open a debate. We still stand by the arguments against city status.

Brighton and Hove Council will now have to deliver the prosperity it has promised us all.

It will have to convince us the Falmer stadium and the new Sainsbury's are what we all really want.

Both have been backed by Simon Fanshawe in his Argus column but I cannot see the pressure groups going away.

The council will have to come up with a sustainable waste strategy, despite its poor record on recycling, and convince the residents of East Sussex an incinerator is desirable.

It will have to provide affordable homes for all, despite the housing crisis which the hyping of the Place to Be has made worse.

The council will have to win our hearts over to a city mayor and prove the post is not just an ego trip.

The fun is over. Now there is a job to do.

-Peter Poole and Valerie Paynter, BASH (Brighton (and Still Hove) against city status)