Full marks to Geoffrey Wells, councillor for Woodingdean, for highlighting the vandalism problems being experienced by Whitehawk residents (Argus, July 22). A friend living at Whitehawk has continually written to Brighton and Hove Council, with no results.

Why is it necessary for a councillor from outside the ward to support Whitehawk residents, when they have councillors of their own? Why are they not highlighting and doing something about the failings of the council?

-Dean Martin, Hollingbury Place, Brighton