I live in Heathhill Avenue, Bevendean, just up from The Avenue, Brighton. Reckless drivers get fed up driving slowly over the humps in The Avenue and speed up as they get to the end of them and through into the estate, including past the school.

We were all led to believe the measures would be put in place at least as far as the school.

Traffic calming measures are a good idea (and I'm a 24- year-old owner of a sports car). I have been involved in an accident with someone coming too fast up that road and my brother, when he younger, was knocked over by someone on that same road.

I know of various other people who have been injured, many seriously, in that area through the speed of the drivers. Children have run in front of cars and the humps may have saved them from death. Surely the children nearer the school and the park should be protected in the same way?

There are a few people who not only ignore the double yellow lines and cycle lane but also use the "green" in the middle as their private car park. Never has the estate looked so tatty since this practice started.

These people are endangering everyone's safety by using this area as their private car park/dumping ground. No one ever seems to do anything about it.

Cars are dumped on the estate and are often left for months. I was driving past one recently when six young lads got in it and smashed the windows from the inside, showering the road with glass. I thought about calling the police but when I did so before (kids were throwing stones at parked cars and windows around my area) it took them three hours to respond because they did not consider it an emergency.

I bet if someone got their hands on whoever was throwing stones at the cars that child's parents would have the police there in five minutes.

This estate has gone seriously downhill. I used to love it round there and have fond childhood memories of the place but it is now being overlooked. It seems all the council grants and millennium grants and so on go to Whitehawk and Moulsecoomb.

It's about time someone took a look at these issues on this estate.

-Melanie Hart, by email