Brighton is becoming increasingly over-populated.

As each family moves out to an affordable nearby location, another property developer swoops in to convert a desirable domestic residence into another two or three flats or bed-sits. This perpetual sub-division of houses is inevitably causing sub-division of our community.

Where there was once one car parked outside each house, now there are as many as six vying for the same space, as in each flat there are now two single residents.

We are encouraged to walk to school and we live near enough to do so but traffic congestion makes the air unbreathable - literally, one cannot inhale. Soon there will be no children walking to school because there will be no children.

The development of the Hollingdean Depot will mean the lorries will generate a level of pollution unacceptable in a residential area.

Mr Collis's reassurance that only 183 vehicles will use Hollingdean Lane does not reassure me at all.

Everyone realises recycling is the only way forward but to use this valuable inner city land to build a depot when people are in desperate need of affordable housing in Brighton is criminal.

Recycling should not mean directly increasing pollution of the air we have to breathe.

If this proposal goes forward, another family home will be chopped up into another three little bed-sits because, like so many before us, we will have given up the struggle and moved out.

-Alyson Sydenham, Brighton