How can Brighton and Hove City Council agree to the building of 751 homes on the King Alfred site when we are short of water, our local hospital trust is heavily in debt and cutting back on services, and the Greens and Lib Dems are calling for cut backs on cars and green taxes to reduce damage to the ozone.

Neither the developer nor its backer, IG Bank, are paying anything to assist with these problems.

Unless road alterations are included in the planning proposals, only three cars will be able to leave the car park to wait at the traffic lights for about three minutes.

In the rush hour, with at least 100 cars trying to exit at the same time, 97 cars will remain in the car park, engines running, pumping out carbon monoxide. Thus it is imperative road alterations are agreed before the complex is built and the cost should be met by the developer.

Brighton and Hove City Council should therefore call upon IG Bank to put up a non-refundable deposit of £50,000 per home with a third going to the council to finance the road alterations, a third to the local hospital trust to reduce the deficit and a third to the water company to find new sources of water.

No doubt the bank can afford this from the huge profit it will be making on the development.

With the Government forcing more and more housing on the South East without any consideration of the local community and the environment, it is up to the council to obtain more non-refundable deposits from the banks which are financing and making enormous profits from these developments.

Such developments must contribute to roads, hospitals and the provision of water supplies they need.

  • B Bayliss, Mornington Crescent, Hove