What a shocking capitulation by Brighton and Hove City Council - and leader Ken Bodfish in particular - in giving the go-ahead to the King Alfred Gehry development.

What on earth does the scheme have going for it apart from the fact it would be a landmark? Precious little.

The council has been blackmailed by the developers into allowing a near doubling of the number of private homes in order to get the small number of affordable homes and reduced sports facilities. How affordable is another question.

What is even more remarkable is the fact that if one Green councillor had not voted for such an environmentally-unfriendly scheme, it would have been rejected.

I can only presume the huge council tax revenue clouded the judgement of those involved.

-J. Whittaker, Hove