COUNCIL chiefs have slammed the idea of building a new home for the Albion at Falmer.
As the Argus exclusively revealed, land next to the Brighton University campus, on the outskirts of the town, has been identified in plans being discussed by the club. Two schemes proposed for farmland off Village Way feature a football stadium, a new home for Sussex County Cricket Club and a greyhound track. Part of the site falls within Lewes District Council territory. But Coun Neil Commin,council leader, has branded the site "totally unsuitable". He said: "Our planning policies for this area are to protect the downland and the Falmer conservation area and to limit further traffic growth. "This proposal clearly goes against all these objectives." Falmer is one of four sites currently being looked at by Albion as a permanent home for the club. The others are land at Waterhall Valley, Shoreham Harbour and the Corals greyhound stadium and Alliance and Leicester site, close to the old Goldstone Ground in Hove.
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