What Jackie Hayes and John Robertson (Letters, October 20) do not appear to appreciate is that the West Pier will not be the sweet, old-fashioned thing they envisage.
It is now a hard-nosed commercial undertaking and, if profits are not made on the pier itself, the bars, discos and fast-food outlets will appear on the shore end.
Those sleazy units will appear somewhere. Does anyone really believe that, in future years, opportunities for further decline will not occur and be seized upon?
Furthermore, if the shore end is developed and obscures the view, as proposed, the precedent is set for similar developments anywhere along the whole seafront.
The existing, wrecked pier should be scrapped.
-A West, Brighton
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