The plan to create salt marshes in Cuckmere valley is badly flawed.

Salt marshes form only after many decades and then only where occasionally covered by water.

So, it will be mudflats that will be apparent, other than at high tide, replacing the grazing land in this unique Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Such a scheme would have little or no bearing on flooding in the upper reaches. It could even make it worse if the Cut is lost and the river meanders slowly out to sea because discharge would be slower.

-Des Abbott, Seaford