Following years of failed campaigns to, first, save the town’s hospital, and more recently, Littlehampton’s last remaining cinema, members of the Littlehampton Civic Society have decided to put their foot down.The society will be drawing up its own community charter which it hopes will be used to show just how residents would like to see Littlehampton evolve, over the coming years.Next Friday, June 28, the civic society, alongside the East Beach Residents’ Association, will be holding a public meeting to discuss the future and direction of the charter.This will take place at the New Millennium Chamber, Manor House, in Church Street, between 6pm and 8pm.Secretary of the civic society, Angela Tester, said she hoped this could be used to support the upcoming neighbourhood plan, which is undergoing public consultation until July 17.She said: “In the latest neighbourhood plan, we read the Littlehampton Town Council will allow, after demolition, a five-story hotel to be built on the site Windmill Entertainment Centre in line with Arun District Council’s plans.“We feel betrayed because they are supporting Arun District Council against the wishes of the majority of the people which they know to be true, but are now accepting Arun’s consulting percentages as the majority view of the public.”However, town councillor Jill Long, chairman of the Littlehampton neighbourhood plan steering committee, said: “It seems odd that in the middle of a formal public consultation, after much previous consultation, this concern has arisen and no one has spoken to us.“For Littlehampton, the plan seeks to protect the town’s key services and ensure that house building is controlled. “The seafront is one of the jewels in the town’s crown and needs to be protected as such. This is what the neighbourhood plan seeks to do.”She added that the plan would look at the ‘what if?’ question, if the leisure strategy was to proceed and how the land of the Windmill and Littlehampton Swimming and Sports Centre could be saved for leisure purposes. A consultation day will take place at Manor House, on Wednesday, July 10, between 10am and 7pm which people with concerns about the plan are urged to attend.