I agree with Mr Carden it is about time the station site was developed and the arguments put to bed.

I was a young boy living in St Bart's parish when the local authority decimated the area under the euphemism of slum clearance.

After that, the demise of the locomotive works and then the goods yard completed the dereliction.

St Bart's has stood among this for some 40 years and nobody seemed to object when rather second-rate industrial sheds were put up in its vicinity in the adjacent New England Street.

I cannot see that the proposed development will overshadow it any more than the old loco works did and it would be a vast improvement on the current waste ground environment.

Indeed, the proposed road layout could reduce the level of traffic past the church and St Bart's school.

St Bart's is indeed a "gem", it is world famous and that is why it was the first church in Brighton to be Grade-1 listed.

I am sure many architects agree with this, as do most Brightonians and the public generally. Perhaps Christopher Wren would have done too.

-CR Tullett Mitchell.Dean@btopenworld.com