I joined others in the mini-demonstration outside Medina House, Hove (The Argus, January 23), and for the first time met other residents from the Kings Esplanade area.

I offered to show the chairman of one of the residents' associations all the material I have collected in order to take issue with the planning strategists of Brighton and Hove City Council.

What reply did I get? He wanted to wait until the outcome of the public local inquiry on the King Alfred centre proposals next month.

The inspector's decision on that will take weeks, if not months, to be published.

So, the chairman declined my offer, adding that he had rather a lot of commitments.

This is just the attitude the planners want. It helps them to walk all over us.

Working in active co-operation with each other - and I do mean working - we can make our views forcibly felt and defeat those base, pecuniary objectives of our council and those in sympathy with it inside and outside the city hall.

-Jerry Laurie, King's Esplanade, Hove