A good psychological tactic to get your preferred option adopted or selected is to make that option obviously the best when compared with others.

Sewage, on the other hand, is a commodity no one wants treated either on their doorstep or in their backyard (jokes intended).

Brighton and Hove "craps" so much on its immediate environs in East and West Sussex that, for once, the decision should be made to deal with its own crap in-house.

Of the options put forward for the city's sewage treatment works which will have least impact on the city's environment, the only one is that at Ovingdean, near Roedean School, where the whole works would be totally invisible from any viewpoint (except from the air).

What an imaginative solution. I am reminded of a hydro-electric power station in Scotland at the side of Loch Awe (if memory serves), where the whole vast cavernous operation is underground, inside a mountain.

The only clue to its existence, again visible only from the air, is a lake high up on the mountain, which could hardly be termed a scar on the landscape in any event.

At Ovingdean, no one will know the works is there or be troubled by it - not even the residents at Roedean School, next door. I support this option wholeheartedly.

-David Wilkinson, Hollingbury Copse, Brighton