At the same time as we get the news of the deadline to oppose the latest plan to build the waste disposal incinerator for the whole of East Sussex and Brighton and Hove at Newhaven, it is announced the "quay sale" clears the way for a £150m homes scheme.

Such a nonsensical, expensive, situation is incomprehensible.

The Bermuda-registered developers Sea Containers Ltd must be laughing all the way to the bank, having got rid of,

at a handsome profit, its involvement in the future of the marina, the West Quay and the Railway Quay, while East Sussex County Council has declared that the waste incinerator will be built on the riverside, which will blight the whole area.

How can these two opposing plans be compatible?

Has anyone told Oakdene Homes about the incinerator? Is anyone going to buy new properties which will have an incinerator as a neighbour?

The chairman of the Newhaven Community Development Association is reported as being "delighted" developers are to realise the "potential of Newhaven" and will "breathe new life into the town" with an "influx of new people, more employment and more business for local shops".

The truth is, if ESCC and Brighton and Hove City Council get their way, the only "new life" being breathed in the town will be that of incinerated toxins.

And the "more employment" will only be for lorry drivers, doctors' surgeries and estate agents acting of behalf of people trying to sell houses and empty shops.

This conflict of interests in the regeneration of Newhaven is idiotic and expensive madness.

Before it is too late, I hope sanity will return to be the key and basis of Newhaven's regeneration.

-L White, Newhaven