I think most people, like me, would welcome more pedestrianised areas in Brighton and Hove. Shopping and traffic-dodging do not mix well. However, what I would not welcome is yet more of council tax payers' money being spent employing a Danish architectural practice to design these schemes.

I cannot believe we do not have architects in this city capable of designing equally acceptable schemes as the New Road project. After all, it is just paving and benches, probably, not beyond the scope of a project for architectural students studying in the city.

Perhaps I am missing some fundamental point in the minimalistic requirements of the "design concepts" demonstrated in the New Road scheme which have required the council to go international to get it right. Or maybe local practices are just not competitive on cost?

  • J Shepherd, Ainsworth Avenue Brighton