If the private flats at the King Alfred site are to finance both the leisure centre and the affordable housing (The Argus, July 3), they will have to be very expensive indeed.

Could a housing association be able to afford the maintenance of the tall towers of the Frank Gehry/Piers Gough/Anthony Gormley scheme?

Could they afford the maintenance of the jagged blocks of the Wilkinson Eyre scheme?

Adam Trimingham said Brighton and Hove should welcome innovation but the first Churchill Square was thought to be innovative and look how long that lasted.

-Selma Montford, The Brighton Society