P James of Hove Up (Letters, March 20) and his supporters just don't get it, do they?

Simon Fanshawe has rightly argued that the seafront contains a huge variation in architectural styles. Regency, Victorian, Edwardian, art deco and some dubious Sixties horrors. They are all there.

However, there are two important differences. The 18th, 19th and early 20th-Century buildings blend very well together because the architecture is based on a classical and neoclassical design.

Look around you and you'll see very few of these buildings look out of place next to each other.

Now, it obviously depends on your personal preferences. I personally am not very keen on the heavily gothic nature of the Victorian period.

Yet there are some gems around and they all seem to fit. But pit them against some of the horrors of 20th-Century architecture and you have disaster.

There are two glaringly obvious example of this. One is from the Thirties, in the shape of Embassy Court, and one from the Sixties, namely the Bedford Hotel, originally a magnificent neoclassical building partly destroyed by fire in the Sixties, then demolished in a moment of development madness.

P James rightly put forward the argument about the destruction of the beautiful houses in Grand Avenue.

I am in total agreement with him. So I hope he will be in agreement with myself and many others that we should be learning from our mistakes and not, in the case of the King Alfred, adding to them.

-DA Coles, Peacehaven