I, and the residents of Hove, am being bombarded with leaflets to "save Hove".

Amazingly, there are even posters urging us to "save our swimming pools", those dingy, dilapidated eyesores which the rest of the city is desperate to replace.

I certainly want to save Hove - to save it from petering out in the King Alfred complex and the sad terrace of shops on one side and hoardings on the other, which have disfigured our seafront for so long.

At last, we have a chance to rejuvenate the dreariest part of the city with an exciting, world-class development.

Are the same obstructionist voices, which have, until now, killed off every project presented, going to destroy this opportunity to give Hove a distinguished future?

What a relief these same negative voices were not present in the 1820s. What chance would the Pavilion have had, if the same arguments used now had been listened to then?

-Rev Martin Preston, St Nicholas Old Parish Church