Rumour has it the residents of Ovingdean and those living close to Sheepcote Valley do actually defecate and urinate.

Unless they propose creating middens in their own back gardens, specifically where, within Brighton and Hove, do they propose their sewage should be processed?

Be very clear, your neighbouring districts want none of your dung.

It is very easy to oppose another's suggestions but seemingly less easy to come up with an idea of their own.

The elders of Brighton, if not Hove, were desperate to become a unitary authority and have sole charge of their destiny.

While the location of a sewage treatment plant is primarily a Southern Water problem, it is a community problem, too.

Those who would be leaders sometimes have to make unpopular (even politically damaging) choices and point the course for those who they have chosen to lead.

So where is the city's leadership on this issue? It is not enough to decry the suggested sites. Is Ken Bodfish too scared to make his views known as to where, within Brighton and Hove's boundaries, he thinks is the place to be? Where else, if not Black Rock, Sheepcote or Ovingdean?

-Tony Sturley, Warren Way, Telscombe Cliffs, Peacehaven