Why can't we have anything new built in Brighton apart from endless offices, shops and flats everywhere?

The former casino in Queen's Road, empty for a long time now, would make a perfect smaller version of London's Madame Tussaud's waxworks what a great attraction that would be.

The old Astoria cinema near St Peter's Church could, perhaps, become an ice rink, with underground parking, in the absence of the much-awaited Black Rock leisure complex which has been talked about for years.

And what about an out-of-town "Rose Bowl"-type stadium, like Southampton, for pop concerts and so on, instead of causing endless congestion with traffic in and out of Brighton to the new Brighton Centre?

Will the West Pier be a permanent eyesore?

And the Ocean Hotel at Saltdean has been empty for 18 months that's another wasted opportunity. Brighton does not have what it takes to be a city not even a football stadium.

Is a tower block at the marina, which won't blend in at all, and a Brighton Eye" tower, more important than these things? Never.

-W Charlton, Saltdean