As a former chairman of the planning committee that agreed the brief for the Ropetackle site in Shoreham, and on the same day the good news of the final hurdle was overcome for the Ropetackle development to go ahead, I was taken aback by the report of Councillor Gill Mitchell pressing for a sewage works to be built at Shoreham Harbour.

Months of close partnership working for the benefit of the residents of Adur and Brighton and Hove is in danger of being undermined by the unilateral views of one councillor, who is seemingly not aware of what is going on in her own council.

To place a sewage works on Shoreham Harbour would put long-term investment into this part of Adur and Hove in jeopardy.

Is Coun Mitchell not aware of the Shoreham Maritime Study - a joint partnership of Brighton and Hove City Council, Adur District Council and West Sussex County Council with Seeda and the Shoreham Port Authority - to bring in much-needed investment to regenerate the area, which will include housing and a media village?

Co-operation between the parties has also been recently extended to looking at joint transport problems, including Shoreham Airport.

Coun Mitchell's proposed "bandwagon" of protest, before any consultation with all parties has taken place, is unwelcome and premature.

I am sure it does not have the support of her Labour group and I hope and trust her leader, Councillor Ken Bodfish, will refute her actions immediately.

-Brian Whipp, Labour and Co-operative county councillor, Southwick