I LOVE Brighton and have lived in and around the area all my life, so I felt moved to comment on the shabby treatment of The Brighton Wheel.

Like it or not, the Wheel has become a bit of a visual icon in the city with it’s great location, just east of the pier.

Its new found significance was typified in The Argus’s brilliant picture of the London to Brighton cyclist last week, with the Wheel in the background, looking rather splendid.

The recent council vote was absurd.

To pit the Wheel against the i360 was ridiculous and irrelevant.

Surely the more attractions in the city the better to bring in the visitors.

If the Wheel goes, does that mean that the pier, the Pavillion, the Lanes and anything else that is remotely regarded as a threat to the i360 must go?

Of course not.

The Wheel is not some outlandish, hair-brained scheme that is being proposed, it’s actually there, up, running and looking great.

To get rid of it now, would be absolutely barmy.

I hope any up and coming appeal will take this into account, because to lose the Wheel now would leave a very big hole on Brighton seafront.

Adrian Hearne, Henfield