I HAVE just read the article on the proposed Sackville Road development.

If this goes ahead it will put an estimated 1,500/2,000 extra people into Hove and Brighton.

At present the city cannot cope with the existing population; hospitals, schools, infrastructure and other vital services being the major problem.

There is no mention of building new ones to cover the additional population. Where are the doctors, nurses and teachers going to come from?

I would also expect that the majority of the new tenants will move in from London. Not Brighton people.

Should not people already living in Hove be given preference? No mention of that in the prospectus.

I would suggest that the planners go, as I did, to the Cornish town of Padstow. It will open their eyes regarding overcrowding. Without exaggeration you could not walk two steps without bumping into someone. The only available car park was two miles away. It was horrendous you could almost call it a vision of, I hate to say, a living hell.

If the planners and of course the councillors, who appear to have no regard for Brighton and Hove or its residents, allow this scheme to go ahead they should hang their heads in shame.

But they are not true Brightonians so what can you expect?

I thought Brighton was “a green party “ town.

Is covering it with concrete being green? Questions to Brighton’s Green MP?

John Armstrong.

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