Our open spaces are essential part of town

AS BOB Roberts (Gazette letters, September 24) has only recently moved here, may I ask why he does not seem to appreciate open spaces? Why stop at the Rustington Convalescent Home, let's build on The Green at Littlehampton, and have done with it?

By The Newsroom

Published 9th Oct 2009, 13:51 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 00:57 BST

What makes our town unique is these open spaces. Already, too much building has taken place. Even in my lifetime, more than enough countryside has been eroded. The area between Norfolk Road and Rustington, apart from the convalescent home, was fields, while the Wickbourne Centre, then a chapel, was the furthest Wick extended in the west.

There is going to come a time when the building has to stop, simply because you cannot continue to expand.

Room still exists for houses/flats, if only the powers that be sat round a table and thrashed out a suitable solution.

E. Benham

Gloucester Place

Littlehampton

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