Shrieking, screeching bad taste is in robust health and terrorising Hove. No, not the ghastly Gehry Towers but the new railings at Stoneham Park in Poets Corner.

The colour has been described to me as "puke" green. It is the same highvisibility shade of green as the city's dustcarts.

It may be appropriate on a hazardous vehicle but I've never heard of park railings jumping into the road in front of moving vehicles.

Is Brighton and Hove City Council terrified someone might walk into the railings and then sue for billions?

No one should visit Marmion Road without taking precautions - wear dark glasses or a welder's helmet.

Where you used to see a fine stand of mature elms, laurel bushes and a handsome terrace of Victorian houses, all you can see now, if you dare to open your eyes, is a ghastly slash of fluorescent green.

Firstly, the council inflicted an ill-considered parking scheme on us, causing distress and havoc, and now this. What next? More oppressive over-developments, I suspect.

  • John and Cynthia Pearson, Marmion Road, Hove