Give our children space to ‘breathe’

Not least, because it takes the children away from the pleasant walking area between Connaught and Elm Grove/The Littlehampton Academy, and the jewel in the crown that is Rosemead Open Space.

Currently, many children come out of school into this space and many Connaught children walk home this way, some to be reunited with their brothers and sisters from Elm Grove.

The playpark and green space is very popular with all the age groups. Of course it is – children (and grown-ups!) were made to thrive outdoors.

It is a happy place for children to play, and at the end of the pressures of a schoolday, to unwind and remember that they are just kids, after all.

Parents also catch up and chat with each other without having to watch that their children and traffic don’t meet. There is no traffic!

This place generally seems to be a happy place from 3pm, up to even 5pm. Can you imagine this scene in Franciscan Way? It’s a place to breathe and “to be” again. The planners in our society seem intent on closing up the green breathing spaces and building on them.

Let’s not do this to our children and then complain we don’t like the effect it has upon them.

Deborah Chase,

Harsfold Road,

Rustington