Ken Fines wrote about his failed four-year campaign against the plan to replace the King Alfred leisure centre with the towers designed by Frank Gehry and the sum wasted on legal fees by the Regency Society for the same ends (Letters, November 14).
Mr Fines mentions he was at one time borough planning officer and goes on to criticise the architectural plans of one of the world's greatest architects. Not only is Frank Gehry one of the world's most honoured architects but he is one whose imaginative buildings have inspired whole cities to prosperity. The recent history of Bilbao is vibrant proof of this.
We read from Mr Fines about his finding that in a map from 1756 there was a river mouth near the King Alfred site and that once the basement of the existing King Alfred was flooded. This is beyond scraping the barrel of opposition. This seems more like ceaseless obstruction of any sort of progress into the 21st century for the city of Brighton and Hove.
The big question that needs asking now is when do they start building?
- Roger Marlowe, Charlotte Street, Brighton
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