I agree with G Konig (Letters, December 2). The planning application for the Medina House site in Hove is due for decision by January 15.
A narrow 18-storey building is proposed. The highest local buildings are half that height.
The planning application describes an "elegant landmark building".
The developer has "deliberately not consulted in advance accepting that the scheme is controversial".
I would recommend anyone who can to examine the application.
The whole application is very defensive and, indeed, has a great deal to be defensive about.
It is a pedestrian, dated design of little quality, reminiscent of some of the buy-to-let buildings that have been thrown up across London, the main guiding principle being a fast buck.
The site offers an opportunity to have a striking, more appropriate building on the esplanade, something to enhance the architecture of Brighton and Hove.
High-rise buildings can make an important contribution to an urban landscape but not on this site. Our city already has had some experience of the negative impact of high rise. I trust lessons have been learned.
-John Kernaghan, Kingsway, Brighton and Hove
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