On July 30 my letter criticising the proposed "crushed can" design for the tower blocks at the King Alfred Centre site in Hove, was published under the heading Crude opportunism.
I felt very honoured to find a similarly critical letter from Ken Hines, former borough planning officer for Hove, describing it as "the architecture of deformity". Brilliant.
Of the many letters on the page, only one fully supported it and that was - surprise, surprise - from a member of the design team.
The public are very suspicious that Brighton and Hove City Council appears to have approved the scheme in principle at a private meeting months ahead of the planning application.
Hopefully, the application will be refused and some degree of environmental sanity restored but, as a former senior lecturer in environmental design, I hope the public will then keep a wary eye on the developers.
Save Brighton and Hove from the vandals. It is our city.
-Arthur North, Brighton
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