I TOTALLY agree with Indrani Ananda and Corinne Blass (Letters, May 7).

We are hardly into summer and already many days and evenings have been spoilt by this “barbecue blight”.

I can’t sit in my garden without being asphyxiated by clouds of noxious smoke from neighbouring barbecues.

I go for a walk on Hove seafront and am driven home by a smog of smoke from beach barbecues. On Good Friday you could barely see along the promenade for the smoke.

These people are spoiling the joy of living by the seaside for the rest of us, who live here hoping to breath fresh air.

Now that the Greens are in power, could we please have stronger and more publicly known legislation on the use of barbecues?

Sue Milner, St Leonards Avenue, Hove

IN REPLY to Tommy Coyne’s patchy response, he ironically refers to Hove lawns as “Grass patches” (Letters, May 14).

This was precisely my point. I have photos of the lawns opposite Brunswick Terrace, which now resemble a desert.

I have noticed over the past decade that those who only rent in Hove for the spring and summer have less regard for our heritage.

Increasingly, such people will cycle on the seafront and allow their dogs off leads onto any beach and, yes, barbecue where they please and not give a damn about any one else.

How dare we have such reasonable rules?

Tim Childs, Westbourne Villas, Hove