THE recent report about the partial collapse of the Victorian “Albion Groyne” on Brighton seafront (The Argus, December 18), highlights the importance of maintaining our local infrastructure.

Groynes form an important part of our seafront infrastructure and help to protect us from coastal erosion.

This particular groyne is also of historical as well as practical importance and it is protected by Historic England.

Brighton and Hove City Council should be working with Historic England and the Environment Agency to ensure that our seafront infrastructure is properly maintained into the future.

Previously the council preferred to spend more than £40 million of public money on the loss making i360 rather than important infrastructure improvements that would have benefited us all.

The current council also seem to neglect our street drains which are often blocked and they fail to ensure that appropriate new drains are installed where these are needed.

In the case of the Seven Dials, they installed new “bespoke” drains that are frequently blocked and don’t actually drain into the sewerage system.

It might help reassure people if the council carried out regular annual checks of all of our seafront infrastructure and street drains to make sure that these are working properly.

Rob Heale, Chatham Place, Brighton