It appears part of Brighton and Hove City Council's "sports strategy" includes moving the goalposts. We have long been told that unlike such places as Burgess Hill and Crawley - we can only have a sports centre if hundreds of flats are built around it at the King Alfred. And now we are told (The Argus, February 19) a rebuilt Brighton Centre also depends upon these proposed flats on Hove seafront.
Such warped logic is at odds with planning law. Time and again, members of the Planning Committee have been told by the chairman it is the application in front of them which is to be considered.
Claims, such as the peculiar notion of "bookends", made on behalf of other putatively dependent developments are irrelevant and meaningless.
-Chriustopher Hawtree, Hove
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