Jeremy Barkway, of the Southern Housing Group, wrote explaining how shared-ownership housing enabled people on low, average and comparatively high incomes to get a foot on the property ladder (Letters, September 26).

He writes that shared ownership is for household incomes ranging from £20,000 to £50,000, which would exclude many single key workers. However, some consultants maintain that a £40,000 salary is only just within the upper income bracket for someone to qualify for shared-ownership housing.

Mr Barkway notes the King Alfred scheme includes 182 shared-ownership flats and there will be even more at the marina.

Considering these locations, they are bound to be more expensive than the Preston Park and Brighton Station site flats he cites.

So what level of household income will be needed in order to afford one of the King Alfred or marina shared-ownership flats?

Will this figure mean key workers, for whom many of these flats are intended, are priced out of these schemes altogether?

And has anyone considered the high maintenance costs of seafront flats?

-Selma Montford, hon secretary, The Brighton Society, Clermont Road, Brighton