The residents of the area around the proposed Veolia waste transfer facility (WTF) in Hollingdean Lane, Brighton, are vociferous in their calls for a change in council policy.

As parents, they should be able to call on the support of every family with children in Brighton and Hove.

It is important that, as parents, we all recognise our responsibilities to the wider community.

Is this why the residents of Fiveways and Hollingdean voted so overwhelmingly in the recent education consultation exercise to maintain the grossly unfair secondary schools allocation policy?

Children in east Brighton have no choice of secondary school. Parents here have to take the places in failing schools nobody else wants.

So before the parents around the projected WTF site talk of imagined threats to the price of their houses (sorry, "the health of their children"), perhaps they should look beyond their own front doors.

We are told by some that, if we want our children to attend those schools, we should move to the area.

With the imminent drop in house prices the Veolia decision could cause, we might just be able to do that.

-Jeremy Radvan, Brighton