Inspector Slams Harbour Blunders
CAMPAIGNERS who fought in vain against controversial redevelopment plans for Littlehampton harbour were backed this week by a Government planning inspector.
Alan Foster, who conducted last year's 52-day public inquiry into Arun's planning blueprint for the next decade, said he had sympathies with objectors' claims that the redevelopment had not adequately protected river-related businesses.
But with the multi-million pound schemes involving Arun and Littlehampton Harbour Board land under way, Mr Foster said the opportunity to "change direction" had now gone.
The criticism of Arun's approach to the harbour is one of the major findings of Mr Foster's report on the inquiry into Arun's far-reaching local plan.
Read about the others in the Gazette, May 30.