The letters from animal lovers bleating about the RSPCA shelter at Braypool, where Brighton and Hove City Council are proposing to build a park-and-ride, are typical of the sentiment of these people.

Let's not build a much-needed park-and-ride on an empty playing field which can be relocated somewhere else because they need it for their dogs.

Instead, let's build it where it will require knocking down six houses, putting people out of their homes and destroying 30 allotments people have spent decades developing.

Does the RSPCA have some sort of legal agreement to let its dogs use the fields as a toilet?

I would have thought it was against the law on health and safety grounds alone. Braypool is surrounded by countryside where dogs could be walked.

The real irony is the suggestion the RSPCA would have nowhere to hold its open day, which is a big fund-raiser for the organisation.

The open day happens in the headquarters, which will be unaffected by the park-and-ride. The playing field is only used as an overflow car park on its fund-raising day.

So it can be a car park for their supporters but not for anyone else. I don't suppose anyone will challenge them on this and dogs will be put before people in this animal-daft city.

-Trevor Graham, Brighton