Adam Trimingham seems to think that all change in Brighton and Hove is necessarily change for the better (The Argus, June 30).

But if you live in North Laine, you may regret that all the greengrocers have disappeared, while more and more cafes take over. Single-use streets also decline over time - just look at Preston Street.

The new library is welcome but it was necessary to oppose earlier schemes in order to achieve this more exciting and usable building.

But do we really need more cafes and shops on the Jubilee Street site in a city which is already overshopped, along with wall-to-wall restaurants in North Road?

Perhaps we should return some shops in other areas to houses, helping to solve two problems at once?

The new Sainsbury's on the station site may be the main revenue producer but revenue for whom? It will do as much damage to London Road as Tesco is doing to George Street, Hove.

The housing on the site could have been much more environmentally friendly, like the Bedzed scheme in Sutton. Where has space been allowed for car club cars?

If councillors realised what a good market could be like, as in Reading or St Albans, they would feel ashamed of our open market. We urgently need change for the better here.

The traffic implications for the Black Rock arena are enormous. Picture 11,000 people leaving at one time. The bus-based rapid transport system would only take ten per cent of this number - how would the other 10,000 travel?

The original tall towers planned for the King Alfred site, which would have cast long shadows over most of Hove, have at last been recognised

as not viable.

Mr Trimingham thinks Frank Gehry is the world's leading architect but he has been chosen for his name. If the name Frank Bloggs had been put on the the same tin can design, it would not have been chosen.

It's not change for the sake of change that we need, but change for the better.

Selma Montford,

-hon secretary, The Brighton Society, Clermont Road, Brighton