Brighton and Hove possesses many exquisitely elegant squares, terraces and crescents.

Why, then, has the pride of these, namely Montpelier Crescent, with proportions and beauty seldom seen, framed with a gracious garden, been desecrated with a line of salvage re-cycling receptacles?

This is the equivalent of a beautiful woman after smallpox destroys her face only, in this case, it is not a sad accident of fate - there is an actual committee that has deliberately uglified this treasure.

While Brighton and Hove City Council is merely considering applying a ban on estate agents' boards, why not act to put detritus and salvage evidence in out-of-sight places, where they belong?

-Frances Walker, Middle Street, Brighton