Build 500 homes and say ‘no more’

Picture this in a few years’ time. Around 4,500 cars a day in and out of Morrisons, ditto for Asda and again for Sainsbury’s.

Plus thousands more cars from all the new housing estates.Where do most of them go? On the new Lyminster bypass, if it’s ever built, then up to the already gridlocked Crossbush intersection to join the A27. Gridlock whichever way you turn.

Or, onto the A259. If anyone in the planning department uses this stretch of road between Littlehampton and Worthing, they should be worried of what the future holds. Again with Morrisons, Asda, the enlarged Sainsbury’s and the hugely enlarged Haskins Roundstone Garden Centre traffic, all using this road.

The only consolation for the developers and the planners is that by the time the whole area is at a standstill, those who allowed it to happen will probably have moved on or retired.

New businesses will not want to set up here if they cannot move freely from A-B.

It would be better to build 500 social houses for those local families on the long waiting list and then say no more.

Patricia Cunningham

Chaucer Avenue

Rustington