The anticipated redevelopment of the Brighton Centre will hopefully attract the most suitable firm of architects to design a stunning new jewel in the crown of our city's enterprise.

The building would need to have many bold facets, some old, some new, with definitely a few visionary touches of innovation to produce a significant and unique venue.

The worst scenario would be if the consortium developments were delayed by protracted controversies similar to those connected with the proposed new King Alfred Leisure Centre in Hove.

Surely lessons have been learned. Perhaps Brighton and Hove City Council planners can find a notable British team of architects to spur along the best scheme.

Architects Lord Richard Rogers and Lord Norman Foster were both selected to work on the design of one of the new towers of Ground Zero in New York.

visionary strategy to transform the Brighton Centre complex.

Let us celebrate home-grown talent and find a firm of great British architects of the required calibre who can deliver the best enterprise scheme for the new Brighton Centre.

If the city is to be ready for the Olympics 2012, city planners need to get their skates on and get the new developments under way.

Also, within the scheme, a new international-size multi-sports hall, to include public roller-skating, would heighten our sports and leisure profile and provide a new skating venue in the city centre.

Tax-payers would benefit from having a new, affordable social facility in the city where children could have fun skating while parents were shopping. This would add a significant edge to the Sussex County Sports Partnership's efforts to bring athletes here and would help us to Keep Sussex Skating.

-Patricia Ginman, Keep Sussex Skating keepsussexskating@ntlworld.com, Supported by the British Roller Skating Sports Federation, Varndean Road, Brighton