Brighton and Hove City Council is giving every indication of forcing through the appalling plan for the proposed waste transfer depot in Hollingdean Lane.

Is it aware that councillors in the Fifties planned Hollingdean and Hollingbury as shining examples of how good council estates could be?

to two years' hard work, at the end of which, they had a nice house for themselves and their families.

Throughout the Hollingdean estate, roads were generously spaced and the houses had large gardens. Communal green areas formed part of its landscape.

Three schools are close to the proposed waste site. Right next door is Downs Infant School, a short walk away is Hertford Road Infants' School and along Davey Drive is St Joseph's Catholic School. Surely these children deserve more than spending their young days being subjected to the filth and smell from a city rubbish dump?

Two high-rise blocks of flats, Nettleton Court and Dudeney Lodge, are due to be built along with the proposed waste plant and intended mainly for elderly residents.

The smell, which will waft up to those flats, will make it unbearable to have windows open.

The proposal is to move household waste within 48 hours but this sort of waste stinks even when it is collected and, in hot weather, will become a festering, putrid mess.

What happens when the rubbish dump's workforce decides to take industrial action and there is a picket line stopping trucks going in and out?

And how hygienic would it be to keep the food at Sainsbury's down the road so close to all this rubbish?

Hollingdean is a nice community with a parade of shops, a fish and chip shop, a Chinese takeway, a pizza parlour and St Richard's, a well-used church.

But what we don't have - and don't want - is a rubbish dump.

-Mrs F Kleiner, Wolverstone Drive, Brighton