Brighton Community Stadium, Football stadium in Falmer, England
Brighton Community Stadium, known as the Amex, is a football and rugby ground in Falmer, east of Brighton. Its seating is set in three tiers around the pitch, and the whole bowl sits three storeys down in excavated chalk. Two white lattice arches rise above the curved roof, which carries a band of blue light along its edge; the pale grey facade below has rows of small windows and stacked glowing panels.
Brighton & Hove Albion's Goldstone Ground was sold to developers in 1995 with no replacement arranged, forcing the club to share Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium, 74 miles away, from 1997. The Falmer site was identified in 1998–99, but planning permission, granted in 2002, was fought by Lewes District Council and only confirmed by Hazel Blears on 25 July 2007. Construction by the Buckingham Group began on 17 December 2008 and the stadium was handed over on 31 May 2011.
Every matchday the venue becomes a meeting point for football supporters from across the region who gather on the terraces and walkways hours before kickoff. The team colors of blue and white dominate the scene and appear on banners, scarves and chants that echo through the stands.
Falmer railway station sits right next to the grounds and offers quick access from Brighton and surrounding towns. On matchdays several bus routes run from the city center to the entrance.
To control the local bird population trained birds of prey are deployed, keeping gulls and pigeons away and leaving the playing surface undisturbed. This method was introduced after problems with droppings and noise at earlier grounds.
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