It's probably a bit rich for me to start disagreeing with the editorial line of The Argus within my first week as the Conservative Party's prospective parliamentary candidate for Hove and Portslade.

But I think you are wrong to support the proposed development for the King Alfred site.

Frank Gehry is one of the world's greatest architects and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is superb.

But any great building has two key ingredients: Outstanding design and an appropriate context.

Mr Gehry's proposal for the King Alfred site fails both of these tests. He has no track record of designing towers and these have none of the organic genius of his building in Bilbao.

A narrow slice of seafront at the bottom of some of England's finest Victorian facades and bedevilled by poor access is certainly not an appropriate context.

The King Alfred site needs a piece of horizontal architecture that works with the shoreline and does not erupt from it like jagged tree stumps.

I am all in favour of Brighton and Hove building exciting, modern buildings - not least as a replacement for the depressingly awful Brighton Centre.

But Mr Gehry's plans for the King Alfred site are simply not good enough.

The Conservative Party in the City wants to see the King Alfred site redeveloped.

But we will fight these second-rate plans every step of the way.

-Nicholas Boles, Hove