Recent reports on the suitability of Falmer as a site for the proposed community stadium suggest it is both unworkable and prohibitively expensive.
Brighton and Hove Albion has been working on the application for nearly two years and I find it hard to believe the club is so wildly out with its figures.
Why would they go to all this trouble, in the process spending £400,000, if Falmer was never a realistic site in the first place?
While I applaud the recent addition of 1,000 seats at Withdean and the two-year extension on the contract there, it is not enough.
People will still have difficulty getting tickets. Imagine building a new stadium at a reduced capacity with the same restrictions on crowd size at Falmer?
There is a market out there for people wanting to watch the Albion who can't get tickets to matches because they are always sold out.
Reduce stadium size and people will lose interest. There is also a commercial market out there.
The running costs of such a stadium will be the same for a small stadium or the stadium being planned.
-M. Whyman, Balcombe Road, Peacehaven
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