The recent article about GEHL Architects' report to Brighton and Hove City Council about possible improvements to Kingsway (The Argus, March 5) leaves me feeling confused.

I find myself wondering if, whilst undertaking their consultancy, staff working on the initiative bothered to visit Brighton and look at the promenade or investigate the city's geography and history.

It is notoriously difficult to grow trees on the exposed southern approaches to the UK and there are few mature, well-developed, examples on Brighton and Hove's seafront.

The suggestion that we render the promenade a leafy boulevard akin to the Champs Elysees would seem doomed on first principles.

But if anyone could encourage a tree to grow on the seafront without prostrating itself across the road, then there's a second issue to consider.

Brighton and Hove is renowned for its fine sea views. Would we seriously want to obscure them with trees?

GEHL is a Danish consultancy and, perhaps, the availability of strong lager in that country may have stimulated a playful approach to the company's work.

If that's so maybe there's a hidden addendum somewhere in the back of their report suggesting that all we need to overcome the restricted views would be some nice seafront towers

  • Nick Tyson, Brunswick Square, Hove