Councillors Duncan and Bodfish seem to contradict each other (Letters, September 13).

On the one hand, we are told the only way to finance a leisure centre is by means of a housing development.

On the other, we are told Crawley did it with its own money (now there's a novel idea) and Burgess Hill by selling something.

All three means of financing seem sensible to me. Protesters of this scheme are not against PFI, enabling developments and so on.

In similar schemes, housing has been built off-site to successfully finance leisure facilities.

What we are against is the further vandalism of our seafront by building the equivalent of four Sussex Heights on it. Simple as that.

-Julie Cully, Medina Villas, Hove