What a way to put visitors off town

Not what the maxim says, but true after their consultation and involvement in designing the new shelters and bench on the seafront.

Well done them, not only do they have a spanking new play area with great equipment on the east of The Green, they have an additional two new climbing frames on the seafront.

The council is to be congratulated. They have found the means to discourage the many visitors to Littlehampton and The Green.

The new shelters have been designed to face openly the direction of the prevailing weather, so at last there is no shelter – unless there is no wind and the rain falls vertically?

It has been a fine summer, but when the weather turns and there is no shelter it should ensure a sufficiently awful experience to ensure no repeat visits.

Even children know about the prevailing weather – or do they?

And what of those adults that want to sit, sheltered, protected and to enjoy the seafront in comfort?

Certainly not on the slats, not on the limited seating area, not on a seat with no back, not in a wind funnel, not in the driving rain and not with children crawling above, around, under and along.

Presumably, this environment is the "communal friendship" reported by Roger Green (Gazette, July 29)?

There is no "misunderstanding in the development", as the bench designer Je Ahn said in the same story. It is a bench with little and no support.

Maybe the council should invite the children sit on their meetings?

C. S. Manders

Beach Crescent

Littlehampton

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