I didn't hear a collective groan of dismay when the "Roaring Forties" towers, proposed at Brighton Marina, were rejected (Comment, February 8). I heard a sigh of relief.

Thousands of small, affordable flats have been proposed along Brighton seafront: At the marina, at the Brighton Centre site and at the King Alfred, as well as at the Texaco garage and the Vallence Gardens sites in Hove.

Are these the right sites for so much affordable housing? Will so many tiny, one and two-bedroom flats answer the requirements of so many people who are in need of housing in this city?

The Comment section referred to Simon Fanshawe's claim that the councillors who voted against the marina application were "grandstanding to a minority".

How does he know? Has he conducted a head count? Or was Fanshawe acting as a publicrelations consultant for the developers of the marina?

The writer of the Comment column predicted "councillors who turned this project down will, no doubt, wish they had seen beyond the parochial objections of the minority".

Has the writer also been busy counting heads?

-Selma Montford, hon secretary, The Brighton Society,