Thank goodness there are people out there who are not afraid to build for the future.

What a breath of fresh air Brighton and Hove's Endeavour tower will be. If only we can look beyond the here and now and the Nimby syndrome and think about who we are building for.

Within the next ten years, we won't be able to move in our city centres if the growth in car use continues at the current rate. We certainly won't be able to park anywhere so what is the point

in owning a car anyway? The answer to this problem is not to build more spaces for cars - we need more spaces for people. We need to build for the next generation and their children.

We need buildings that work for us in this century, sustain us on this small island and meet the very different criteria that will sustain a 21st-Century society.

This tower is tall, it offers some alternative ways to live and travel in the city and it certainly doesn't "match" its Victorian neighbours. Fantastic!

When the viaduct at Preston Park was originally built, it spanned a green valley and stood out like a sore thumb.

It is now celebrated. The subsequent urban sprawl that has developed did not "fit in" and was not planned or pondered upon by committees. It was built because it fulfilled a need.

No one is suggesting we sack all the planners and build with the abandon of our Victorian forefathers but we do need to borrow some of their spirit and vision.

The Endeavour site has been an eyesore for years - let us have something there that is brave, striking and fit for the future, that picks up this tired and rather run-down pocket of the city and starts the revival that will surely follow if a building of this design and quality is given the go-ahead.

This is what Brighton and Hove should be striving for. After all, what are we currently renowned for? Being the drugs capital of the UK and having a collapsing pier. Here's to the future.

-Fiona J Thomas, Paston Place, Brighton