Time to build an ark

Where is the infrastructure for all these proposed developments? Answer: There isn’t any.

We get promise after promise and vanishing section 106 agreements, but nothing changes.

The profiteering developers, after public opposition and refusals by our weak planning department, have fumbled through public inquiries, got the go-ahead, developed the site and rapidly moved on.

We are left with the resulting chaos time after time.

So far, from the Tesco roundabout, along the A259 Littlehampton bypass to The Body Shop roundabout, we have under-construction sites and proposed developments with a frightening number of just over 3,000 potential homes.

Really, enough is enough.Development needs to be stopped now before this area succumbs to total gridlock and more serious problems.

There is no infrastructure. We also have apartments sat empty and not completed in Woodlands Avenue, Rustington, with more homes under construction at Abbotswood, Rustington, and on the site of the former Fletcher Arms pub at East Preston.

Yet still the vultures of developers keep coming.

The bones are bleached and picked clean. Go, develop where you live and leave Littlehampton alone.

If developers need to build something, then build us an ark, because with rising tides and concreting of floodplains, we’re going to need some pretty soon.

D. Thomas

Oakcroft Gardens

Littlehampton