With the current fine weather, may I suggest Hove residents, who are now paying a vastly increased council tax, take time to walk on the promenade, particularly between the King Alfred centre and the peace statue?

It will be good for your health and it will give you chance to see how badly the surface is worn and patched.

Do wear shoes with thick soles or trainers as normal walking shoes soon have the soles punctured by the spiky surface.

The decrepit bulldozer that Brighton and Hove City Council uses along the seafront damages the surface every time it is used.

The council does not see fit to repair such important features as our attractive seafront, which always suffers when budget cuts are made.

If routine repairs and maintenance had been carried out this would not have happened.

The West Pier should have been rebuilt and the bandstand not left to rot and crumble. These are part of our city and residents and visitors alike deserve to have them preserved.

The council has failed in the performance of its duties.

The council has spent almost £70,000 on renovating one of the tennis courts on the Kingsway.

Although the work was carried out months ago, it has been kept locked and the only use of this facility was by boys who scaled the fences to skateboard or play football.

It has only just been recently used, I was pleased to see, by young children with some teachers.

I note the council wishes to spend money on a skating facility by Hove Lagoon.

Why spoil this pleasantly grassed area? Or is it being done because it was requested by a famous resident who lives nearby?

-Mrs E Hill, Hove