Adam Trimingham is right about a Greater Brighton and Hove Authority stretching from the River Adur to the River Ouse.
It is nonsense for the continuous built-up area between the coastline and the South Downs, with a population approaching a million, to be subject to the transport, planning and education whims of three different councils.
Such briefs in Greater London and Greater Manchester extend outside the city to the benefit of all.
This area's problems affect everyone in it and only political cowardice at the time prevented a new unitary authority of the three towns of Brighton, Hove and Portslade from extending to the natural boundaries of the two rivers.
James Greed,
Wheatfield Way, Moulsecoomb
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