I don't know how long Charlie Burnham (Letters, May 11) has lived in Brighton and Hove but it is obviously not long enough to have realised that what industrial sites we have left in the city are all very small scale and bounded by residential areas and schools.

Wherever rubbish transfer sites are located within the city, they will have communities living around them. Like all the other objectors to this rubbish transfer proposal, Charlie Burnham says "Not In My Backyard" but bottles out of saying in whose back yard it should be.

Onyx has proposed a facility to transfer waste from recycling lorries, which collect it within the city, into long-distance transport to convey it to where it can be processed.

The alternative is to take it to Newhaven, Seaford or Worthing or maybe rip up a bit of countryside to build a transfer station there.

This is obviously inefficient in the use of the vehicles and the crews time, as well as far more polluting and quite unacceptable to other communities.

The logical place for a rubbish transfer station is where Brighton's rubbish has been processed since before any of the current protestors were born.

The old dust destructor was there in Hollingdean many years ago and the site has been an industrial site ever since.

Charlie Burnham and all the other protestors arrived in Hollingdean long after rubbish processing did.

For once, Onyx and Brighton and Hove City Council have got their proposal just right.

-Ian James, Portslade