This week, the amended scheme for the Alliance site, Hove, comes before the planning committee when, among other items, overdevelopment and traffic problems will again be considered in the light of wholesale local objection.

Whatever the outcome, as a resident and voter, I ponder how the work was put in hand in the first place. I had not been notified of any public discussion when the developers moved in and started demolition, months before the first planning committee meeting last November.

At this meeting, the applicant's representative stated the scheme had been drawn up to meet Brighton and Hove City Council's requirements, or words to that effect. Why, then, were we not consulted? This is a prestigious site, not a minor planning matter.

In this respect, too, it is hard to see how the planning and architectural departments can take an impartial view when the executive has decided a certain agenda.

If the council is not answerable to the electorate, surely there is an infringement of human rights?

-Patrick Melling, Orchard Avenue, Hove