So Councillor Bob Carden reckons its unfair on those listening to the outcome of their planning application to be disturbed by hecklers (The Argus, August 14).

I might have turned 80 but I still have a good memory.

His whinging about hecklers is at odds with the view he took when residents on the estate where I live complained to him last year of disturbance from live outside concerts that compelled many over a wide area, on hot summer evenings, to sit indoors with their windows shut to minimise deafening noise.

He didn't consider this unfair and, in fact, afterwards told an inquiry that what many complainants found disturbing, he did not.

Worse, last year when residents living in my block objected to a basketball court being pencilled in for construction just inches from our doorsteps on the grounds it would spoil the peaceful enjoyment on our homes, Coun Carden showed no appetite for getting this unfair project thrown out.

As a result, we now permanently live with disturbance from bouncing balls, screaming and shouting.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for gander, councillor.

Either it is unfair on us all to be disturbed or none at all.

-Mrs Emily Bartlett, Portslade