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Some facts about development: 1) Not for tradition but for economic reasons, sporting stadia have always been built on the edge or outside of town. The real estate in town is always too expensive. This is a fact of life. So this means that alternative sites like Brighton station were never...

Mike Middleton must know this more than anybody else as he was chairing the Labour party working group on the stadium proposals. This is why the Leader comment is incongruous and probably just plain wrong.

Mike Middleton has come out in public with a serious suggestion for one other site in the past.

Don't be fooled by Sheepcote. The anti-Falmer brigade are mentioning Sheepcote because it is not in the National Park plans and the downs lobby won't support them if they chose Toad's Hole or Waterhall. Sheepcote is not really a practical idea, not if the Albion want fans to turn up. It is a...

Transport and acess: the trouble with both Waterhall and Toad's Hole (or the good thing) is that not that have bad access, but the highways department would not allow traffic lights, but would insist on an expensive junction, spaghetti-style, set up, which would cost too much dosh to be...

Even if they are on your side, NIMBYs can be a bit of a pain. Just get the local people to tell the truth. Exaggerations of the faults of alternative sites only lead to scepticism on the part of the neutrals. This applies to the exaggerations of the benefits of Falmer as well. The promised 100...

Visual impact was the only thing the green lobby could think off. There are no bats, plants, butterflies on the muddy field; they have all been poisoned by the farmer's chemicals attempting to grow crops on poor quality chalkland base. So they are left with the rather subjective element of the...

c) Whether there are any other sites that could be suitable for the proposed development, having regard to the above criteria. So anything within the Brighton & Hove conurbation within the Football League limits could be included. I do not know exactly what the Football League rules are...

The previous Public Inquiry was for Falmer Village Way North. Falmer Village Way South could (or should) be included as a valid alternative as well. It seems to me just as legitiamte as the other suggestions. In this way walkers over the downs can see the stadium probably. And it could be...

Bromley shrimp: it is not and never was remotely anything to do with environmental merit. It is to do with an arbitary line drawn on a map designating what is an AONB and what is not. The rest is politics (especially the South Downs Conservation Board) and objectors taking advantage of this...

To get to Sheepcote, the best way for me is to drive to Falmer and then turn off up the road to Woodingdean.