The planning application Eileen Daffern refers to (Letters, June 25) was not for a Post Office to be built underground in the crypt of St George's Church but in an above ground extension.

Brighton Hove City Council subplanning committee refused this on conservation grounds, not least because St George's Church is a Grade II listed and in a conservation area.

I hope this corrects Ms Daffern's misleading statement that: "New premises were found in the basement of St George's Church".

-Dr Ruth Cowl, St George's Road, Brighton