It is naive of GP Brown to suppose 25-year-old pledges that the tops of buildings in the Marina would not go higher than the cliff tops will be honoured today, even if that is what the Brighton Marina Act says (Letters, November 26).

Brighton and Hove City Council and the developers live in a fantasy world of a mini-Manhattan without cars or the need to park them.

They envision the public moving about in the shadow of their phallic monstrosities by means of a non-existent rapid transport system and paying ever more tax and exorbitant purchase prices to live in an already-discredited invention called the tower block.

* GP Brown says the tower block at the Marina is a non-starter because the then-Brighton Council said there will be no development above the cliff top.

At the time, it also promised that Brighton residents would not have to pay to gain entry to the complex and we were even issued with identification passes by the Brighton Corporation.

Why, then, is there now a charge of £2 per rod for those who wish to fish there?

If that covenant has not been adhered to, what makes Mr Brown think the other one will?

* Thanks to GP Brown for reminding us of the council's pledge not to build above the cliff height at the Marina.

The council also pledged to rebuild the open-air swimming pool at Black Rock. So it is nice to know the ridiculous 11,000 seater "events arena" currently threatening this site will also never be built.

Perhaps the council's "futures planning team" needs to research past pledges and stop all this nonsense about tower blocks.

* I refer to your article City in a Giant's Shadow (The Argus, November 24). Beware, residents of the so-called City of Brighton and Hove, for we are destined to become "Croydon-on-Sea".

-Michael Robins, Hove