I read week in, week out about how we must/mustn't (delete as appropriate) build this or that.

Having returned to Sussex after 17 years exile in North Staffordshire, I cannot believe how parochial people here have become. I agree we should all have a say in our landscape and vista but we must also take a view for the common good.

We are losing the Engineerium and the West Pier owing to the inactivity of a majority but we are also in danger of losing King Alfred and Falmer Stadium because of the overactivity of a minority.

Brighton is no longer a 19th-Century seaside town so, while it is good to maintain some of its past, please, not at the expense of its future - there is room for both.

If people put as much effort into saving the West Pier as fighting other developments, we would truly have a wonderful city here in Sussex.

Let Brighton and Sussex move on, so my children can have a 21st-Century county to grow up in.

-Rod Higgins, Eastbourne