If David Robson had read the report of the King Alfred Project Board more carefully, he would have noticed the King Alfred towers had been reduced in height not as a result of public opinion or the views of the "style police in the town hall" but because the scheme was not viable, which some of us had suspected all along (Letters, 13 July).

As an architect, he will know that building tall is expensive and high density does not have to mean high buildings.

The reason we are being offered more housing (and many of the flats may well be second homes) and less commercial space is there is an insatiable demand for housing but much less of a market for commercial space.

It probably isn't the architects who have lost their nerve but the bankers and the housing association.

Many of the inhabitants of Hove, who would have been in shadow for most of the day from the tall towers would not have shared David Robson's enthusiasm for the scheme.

The Karis representative at a recent meeting of members of the Regency Society admitted that even they could not move the sun.

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