Multi-coloured tower blocks at Brighton Marina are not the way forward.

We have only to look across the English Channel at the east side of Calais - where a visually-painful wall of coloured flats obscure the old parts of the town - to learn that lesson.

No wonder the French planners built a motorway by the side of them.

If we wish to have something to set the Marina (and the King Alfred site) apart, why not create buildings that reflect the city's existing Regency style.

This has been well demonstrated in Kemp Town where a seafront, Regency-fronted building has been rebuilt, almost from scratch.

Many of the marina buildings already have an attractive quasi-Regency styling, so why not extend that styling rather than create a new style that visually clashes?

-Philip Taylor, Hove