I now live in a village outside Brighton. I went to see a murmuration of starlings and parked in Asda car park and walked to the pier from there. What a mess, especially where the old beautiful swimming pool and pub called The Bathing Machine used to be, it is now a derelict site full of travellers and their vehicles and loads of rubbish. It is like a dump, it is horrible. I now understand that a pool may be built on the beach no more than a few yards from the Bathing Machine site. What was wrong with the one already there?