What makes Adam Trimingham think anywhere other than Hove would have been delighted with Frank Gehry's second building in the UK (The Argus, September 14)?

Hove's residents who oppose it are not whiners and whingers, we use our eyes to judge what we see, rather than being hoodwinked by a famous architect's name.

Why should we applaud wobbly towers so a few tourists can come and gawp at them for a few minutes, never to return?

Why are tourists more important than residents, who spend money in the city throughout the year?

The city's tourist economy is already overheated. We cannot cope with the numbers we have here now. Bilbao may, with the help of Easyjet, be a tourist draw but Gehry's buildings in the US are not.

Brighton may be booming but Hove doesn't need regenerating.

It isn't a question of "accept this scheme or be stuck with an ageing sports centre" either. Other local authorities are finding ways of funding new leisure facilities.

The Brighton Society welcomes new, well-designed buildings, which are appropriate to their site, such as the Jubilee Library.

The King Alfred scheme is not the result of vision, it is the result of greed on the part of the local authority, which wants too much for nothing, and the developer, which wants more, and even more profitable, flats.

-Selma Montford, hon secretary, The Brighton Society, Brighton