Are we to understand the Endeavour tower is additional to the 125 flats for which planning permission has been granted on this site (February 15)?

Six car club vehicles for 125 flats appears inadequate, especially as hardly more than 20 extra off-street parking spaces are envisaged. Where will customers to the motor car showroom in the block park?

When questioned at the recent public meeting about this application, an official of Brighton and Hove City Council admitted the car club was guaranteed by the developer for only three years.

The council could impose no special restrictions to prevent the flats' car-owning residents from parking in areas where on-street parking is permitted.

When I suggested this could result in heavy on-street parking in neighbouring areas and congestion at the entrance to the city centre, she reiterated car-share schemes did work.

When asked where, the location identified was no more precise than London. I have since been informed the flats' residents will officially not be permitted to park within half a mile of this development, although it is difficult to see how this could be enforced.

I understand the developers can, by contract at the time of sale, write in a no-car-ownership clause which they, not the council, can enforce. But how will they know if this agreement is kept and would they bother to enforce it?

Hitherto, the higher the building in a residential area the greater the distance it had to be from its neighbour.

This requirement resulted in the realisation that an equal or greater density could be achieved on a given site at four storeys or less at lower cost of construction and maintenance.

Should these distance criteria be applied on this site, Piers Gough's tower could not be built.

-Oscar Thompsett, Ridgeside Avenue, Patcham