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Letter: Democracy rules
I was surprised at the tone of Jason Goodchild's diatribe (Letters June 23). My espousal, as he calls it, of Toads Hole valley, is no more pitiful than his and others' determination to plant a blot on the landscape at Falmer.
He may be right about Falmer not being within the South Downs National Park, in which case the need for haste is purely financial.
This should not be allowed to interfere with the due process of law, however ponderous.
Falmer may well have had much of its "natural beauty" swallowed up by the construction of the universities and bypass but surely it now deserves to be left to regain a measure of its rural peace.
If the proposed site is really only "a useless field polluted by constant traffic", surely it is not suitable for a grand sports stadium. Sporting activities and pollution do not make good bedfellows.
The costs incurred in decontaminating the atmosphere will add enormously to the running of the stadium and, with the additional football traffic, the problem will surely only increase as time passes.
Even if most supporters can be persuaded to travel by train, many will still use coaches, buses or private cars and there will still be the away fans to cater for. But transport problems will be enormous, wherever this project is sited.
Mr Goodchild's contention that public transport in the Toads Hole area is almost non-existent is not beyond a solution.
We have in Brighton one of the most enlightened public transport entrepreneurs in the shape of Roger French who, I am sure, would use his expertise and resources to alleviate the situation.
I will never get the point about the Albion playing at Falmer, even if it eventually happens.
It is simply the wrong place ñ and more strength to Lewes District Council in its attempts to halt the juggernaut the Falmer project has become.
-JM Hawkins, Shoreham
http://www.theargus.co.uk/the_argus/news_extra/LETTERS6.html
Letter: Democracy rules
I was surprised at the tone of Jason Goodchild's diatribe (Letters June 23). My espousal, as he calls it, of Toads Hole valley, is no more pitiful than his and others' determination to plant a blot on the landscape at Falmer.
He may be right about Falmer not being within the South Downs National Park, in which case the need for haste is purely financial.
This should not be allowed to interfere with the due process of law, however ponderous.
Falmer may well have had much of its "natural beauty" swallowed up by the construction of the universities and bypass but surely it now deserves to be left to regain a measure of its rural peace.
If the proposed site is really only "a useless field polluted by constant traffic", surely it is not suitable for a grand sports stadium. Sporting activities and pollution do not make good bedfellows.
The costs incurred in decontaminating the atmosphere will add enormously to the running of the stadium and, with the additional football traffic, the problem will surely only increase as time passes.
Even if most supporters can be persuaded to travel by train, many will still use coaches, buses or private cars and there will still be the away fans to cater for. But transport problems will be enormous, wherever this project is sited.
Mr Goodchild's contention that public transport in the Toads Hole area is almost non-existent is not beyond a solution.
We have in Brighton one of the most enlightened public transport entrepreneurs in the shape of Roger French who, I am sure, would use his expertise and resources to alleviate the situation.
I will never get the point about the Albion playing at Falmer, even if it eventually happens.
It is simply the wrong place ñ and more strength to Lewes District Council in its attempts to halt the juggernaut the Falmer project has become.
-JM Hawkins, Shoreham
