A task group set up to help revamp Brighton seafront has not met for two years.

The group was formed in 1992 to comment on specific projects to smarten up the entire Brighton and Hove seafront from Peacehaven to Portslade.

But it last met on November 29 1999.

The Seafront Task Group is made up of Brighton and Hove councillors and council officials.

Rottingdean councillor Lynda Hyde was co-opted because she wanted to see improvements to the Brighton seafront, and Rottingdean and Saltdean.

She is concerned many important planning decisions affecting the seafront are being made without the input of democratically elected councillors.

Councillor Hyde, who attended the committee's last meeting, said she asked in August last year when the next one would be held and was told in the next few weeks.

She said: "I am still waiting. There are many important events taking place along the seafront, including the King Alfred which is both controversial and a so far a disaster.

"The Aquarium development opposite the Palace Pier is still not fully functional, and that has turned out to be another disaster.

"Negotiations are ongoing about the West Pier and building continues at Brighton Marina. I want details about what is happening at Shoreham, but I have no information about what is happening.

"I understand the Black Rock site is being currently marketed and I only found out about that through my own inquiries."

Councillor Hyde has written to David Flemming, assistant director of the leisure and regeneration at the council, who is the officer responsible for co-ordinating the work of the Seafront Task Group, calling for a meeting of the group.

Former Mayor Andy Durr, a member of the task group, who is credited with getting improvements to the central Brighton seafront said he was unconcerned about the lack of meetings of the group.

"The Seafront Task Group meets to discuss specific projects. It is not a chatting shop for general seafront measures. Our last project was the children's playground and that task has been completed and everyone is pleased with it. We shall soon have another task, the sunken gardens."

A spokesman for Brighton and Hove Council said: "The seafront task group was set up to bring forward specific seafront projects. The last such project was the children's playground, which has been successfully completed and is a big hit with local people.

"The next project is the sunken gardens between the playground and the Peace Statue. A meeting of the task group will be arranged as soon as there are concrete proposals to consider for this stretch of the seafront."