May I congratulate you on the excellent journalism from your two reporters Miles Godfrey and Miriam Wells on the King Alfred plans (The Argus, April 19).

Thanks to their article, it is now clear the King Alfred planners have lost the plot and need to be ditched.

The idea of this development at the beginning was surely to enable a new state-of-the-art leisure centre to be built at no cost to taxpayers via some residential development around it.

However, it is clear we have ended up with a plan for a new town right on the seafront, with a small leisure centre attached.

Thanks to their journalism, it is now revealed that a free leisure centre is not possible.

The district valuer has recommended Brighton and Hove City Council should either fund the leisure centre itself or agree to scale it down.

So Hove ends up with giant skyscrapers defacing and overshadowing the beach for nothing.

Councillors must reject these misconceived plans as soon as possible.

-Paula Jones, Hove