Grasping developers are continuing their slow rape of Brighton and Hove.

They are pressuring planning officers to support their intention to demolish and change the face of our residential areas by pulling down as many family homes as possible to be replaced by large blocks of concrete, creating as many flats as possible.

It seems a crime now to own a nice house with a garden and live alongside similar properties.

There are hundreds of flats available in all price ranges for sale at any one time. Just read the Property section in The Argus on a Wednesday.

The pressure on the planners to grant permissions for flats is huge. A further application has been received for 35 flats at 323/327 Dyke Road, Hove.

This is a residential housing area and should remain this way. The blocks will be totally out of character in this location, dominating the skyline and will affect the infrastructure and massively increase the flow of traffic on an already congested road.

We must stop the incursion of flats in Hove Park/Dyke Road and Dyke Avenue area and retain these fine family homes.

They talk about affordable homes. What is affordable? I am sure most of us struggled to buy or rent our first home but we did and no doubt all value our present homes and do not want money-grabbing developers to profit at our expense.

David T Goldin

-Dyke Road, Hove