Two issues of The Argus highlighted the best and worst of our city.
On Monday, November 15, you reported the fight to save a 200-year-old flint wall marking the historic boundary between the old parishes of Brighton and Rottingdean. I wish the campaigners well in their fight to save a priceless piece of our heritage.
On Thursday, November 18, the front page spread of a skyscraper nightmare was a depressing way to end the week. The idea of such a huge development totally dominating the area is just too much to bear.
A simple flint wall, reflecting the local area, with its cultural connections, local stone from the adjacent Downs and settling into the scale of the community and townscape that makes up East Brighton - to be destroyed by a faceless corporation that is based hundreds of miles away.
As for the rows of tower blocks completely obliterating the iconic chalk cliffs and a massive skyscraper, taller than the downland summit of Whitehawk Hill, these have no relationship with the city - they could be anywhere.
There is no reflection of the local scene or the area's architecture, no sense of scale and no consideration for the evolution of our city.
-Walter Flynn, Brighton
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