Frances Walker (Letters, March 6) is right to raise the matter of recycling bins spoiling Brighton and Hove.

But it is not only bins that spoil our city. I saw a big sign hanging on a bent pipe, with a box of maps attached, which had been erected in East Street, cutting off the view of one of the best streets in the city centre.

Who decides where bins and boards should be placed? Do these people realise what damage they can do to our cityscape?

-Selma Montford, Hon Secretary, The Brighton Society, Clermont Road, Brighton