Last year, Brighton and Hove City Council tinkered over many months with the roads and pavements around Palmeira Gardens.

We were told it would encourage more people to use the gardens, which would be a good, "green" thing.

Well, it cost £1 million (like the neighbouring properties) and the gardens are still deserted.

It's doubtful spending £2 million to transform the rough ground between St Peter's Church and the Royal Pavilion into a municipal park with sponsored flower beds will have much more success (The Argus, April 16).

People travel down to the seafront for the sea, not a bit of grass to picnic on.

Why not turn the area into a large bus and coach station, with large-scale in-and-out bays and roofing, and a sizeable, privately-funded underground car park? Frank Gehry could design it, if that helps.

The present arrangements for buses and coaches in the city are primitive and the improvised bus station called Churchill Square is downright dangerous.

  • Trevor Pateman, Western Road, Brighton