The seven letters (June 10) about Frank Gehry's design for the King Alfred development - six against and one in favour - were all from Hove.

I wonder what the results would be if a referendum asked Hove's residents if they wanted to separate from Brighton.

Some other questions worth considering are:

Was there a design competition for the project?

Did it have to provide specific facilities?

If it did, is it fair to those entrants who lost to approve a different design?

Does Frank Gehry's world-class reputation equip him to provide a complex of housing, leisure and sporting facilities?

Who will be the world-class structural engineers doing the difficult work on the tin can towers?

Have the city councillors forgotten other high-profile projects, for example the Scottish Parliament, whose original £40m budget ended up, after completing three years late, at £400m?

-BG Beck, Lewes