Let us not forget, in the torrent of criticism over the King Alfred redevelopment, that Karis has other equally contentious high-rise projects in progress.

Earlier this month, some might say in the holiday season when many objectors will be away, Brighton and Hove City Council posted a re-application for the old Endeavour Motors site on Preston Road.

The original proposal provoked a public meeting at which this Karis/Piers Gough confection was roundly condemned before the planning application was withdrawn while, we were told, the council worked out a policy for tall buildings.

There has been no clear statement of such a policy yet the King Alfred scheme has been approved and the determination to get the 16-storey Endeavour project going seems undiminished.

The main objection in both cases has been that they are the wrong buildings in the wrong places.

The original application for the Endeavour site said the design was based "on the fabulous Brighton heritage of the big-bayed terrace at its most gloriously elaborate in Brunswick Square".

Those terraces are of Regency design. The area around Endeavour is all Edwardian or Victorian, as is the listed railway viaduct it will tower over.

The other deficiency in both cases is the ludicrous design. The Endeavour project has supposed Regency bays in the shape of "segments of complete circular drums" reaching up 12 storeys.

The top four storeys are nothing more than a box stuck on top, completely out of sympathy with this "Regency" style, and only there, as far as one can tell from the original Karis submission, to provide for "triplex penthouse at 13th-15th floor with a roof terrace".

The whole thing will stick out like a sore thumb and, because the closing date for objections is tomorrow, few people will get their voices heard.

Local democracy at work, eh?

The objections to the 74-apartment development involving a 16-storey high building at 90 Preston Road, the site of the Endeavor Garage, were to be submitted by August 14, the height of the holiday season when many of those affected by this monstrosity would be away.

The building appears already to be under construction with underground parking facilities for only 35 cars and the staggering number of 110 bicycles.

The site entrance will be on a hazardous northbound one-way system and will require a cycle lane encircling the block.

I assume no member of Brighton and Hove City Council will be affected by this semi-skyscraper.

-Jane Goldsmith, Brighton