The planning application for a 15-storey building of 251 flats on the site of the much-hated Anston House tower was withdrawn from the agenda of a planning committee of March 13.

This was because the Brighton Society had demonstrated that the calculations submitted by the applicant showing the overshadowing of the Rotunda and the Rose Garden in Preston Park were inaccurate.

New calculations have now been submitted which show that the overshadowing would be much more serious than was at first thought.

The Rose Garden and the Rotunda are places where people like to sit outside in the sun at all times of the year.

If the planned twin towers of flats are built, they would become miserable places for seven months of the year.

The scheme for the Anston House site is now on the agenda of a planning committee meeting scheduled for tomorrow, yet the public hasn’t been consulted on the most recent overshadowing charts.

We request that the plans again be deferred to enable the public to be made aware of, and to comment on, the serious damage this overshadowing will do to Preston Park. Will the Rose Garden bloom again?

Selma Montford, hon secretary, The Brighton Society