"Piers Gough envisages the two central towers being 12 metres taller in order to re-jig the designs for the other eight tower blocks" (The Argus, June 6).

He says this height increase is "only a couple of floors", but 12 metres is nearly 40 feet in old money.

In the original design, the towers were higher and Karis/ Piers Gough were told to reduce the height.

This they did and that design has failed, too.

So how does Piers Gough think it will get passed this time?

The Government is under pressure to ensure any new housing developments work much harder to integrate environmental, social and economic interests in the management of water.

In the UK, the average water consumption is 293,000 gallons per head of population.

Multiply this by the number of proposed flats on the King Alfred site (720) and, on the conservative side, 1.75 people per flat and this adds up to an additional water requirement of more than 369 million gallons.

The water supply is already at breaking point and the proposed King Alfred development can only exacerbate the situation.

Who will suffer? The people of Brighton and Hove.

It is time the council opened up the tender to new ideas.

Having failed, why should Karis now be the only ones in the frame?

-Ray Farrow, Hove