I found the article about the likely approval of a city square development by Brighton and Hove Council (Argus, July 25) alarming.

For years, Brighton has been crying out for a decent-sized central library. Now, rather than a new central library, we are getting a development that includes a library, along with a city square, housing a hotel, business space, shops, restaurants, bars and a doctor's surgery.

While I don't object to any of the above, I suspect what we will end up with is a profit-making, commercial development and an under-sized, non-profit making library.

This will, of course, have nothing to do with the private sector involvement in this project and New Labour's idiotic "private sector good, public sector bad" beliefs.

-Jez Macdonald, Ditchling Rise, Brighton