I was at the meeting held by Karis Developments and local residents where the scheme and Brighton and Hove City Council's handling of the planning process met with universal opprobrium.

The problem with Josh Arghiros's Connaught Road development is not architectural style but scale.

The building is too big on the outside and too small on the inside. If he were really not doing it to make money, he would lop off the top three floors and build flats with bedrooms larger than nine square metres and ceilings higher than eight feet.

If his critics don't like modern architecture, that is probably why they chose to live in a conservation area and why they are entitled to complain about the geography of this project.

The landmark developments of today have a habit of turning into the eyesores of tomorrow.

-Jonathan Crawford, Buckingham Place, Brighton