After analysing Councillor Ian Duncan's letter in The Argus (September 13), it has become obvious that renovating the King Alfred centre was always a side issue.

The real intention from the beginning was to build a massive development of flats on this prime seafront site which would cause havoc with parking, local services and so on.

Unfortunately, Brighton and Hove City Council has to apply for planning permission to change the use of this site from leisure to residential and, fortunately, residents have an opportunity to oppose this change by writing to the local plan department with their objections before September 30 - that is, if they have been informed.

-G Konig, Benham Court, Hove