Councillor Ken Bodfish (The Argus, August 19) would have been better placed in defence of Brighton and Hove City Council's planning fiasco for the Black Rock development site if it had not been empty for more than 30 years.

At the council's methodical pace of progress (his words), do we have to wait for another 30 years? When we elected a Labour council a few years back, I expected a dynamic, forward-thinking administration who would put this city on the map as the treasure of the South Coast in all forms of activity, with facilities to match.

Instead, we have a beached whale floundering in the pebbles, unable to make a decision in case minority groups gang up on it.

-James Greed, Wheatfield Way, Brighton