Woodland at risk

He says that those of us who don’t want the new bypass are ‘living in the past’. Not at all. We are the ones who care about the future.

We recognise that traffic getting to Chichester or Worthing five minutes quicker adds nothing to the quality of our lives. We also know that our children and grandchildren will thank us for preserving the remains of our precious natural environment.

It will not help businesses or employment in our area to Tarmac over wetlands and woodlands. They are an essential part of the attractiveness of West Sussex.

If we try to compete with the Midlands for motorways and road-speed, we will still not be very good at it, but we will in the process spoil the scenic beauty and the way of life which makes people, including key economically active people with families, want to come and live here.

I know what I’m talking about. I run a £30m business in Goring-by-Sea and we need good people working for us all the time. We have to attract them here, and they are not attracted by more roads and less countryside!

It is the people who want to ruin our West Sussex landscape with new roads who are living in the past, the distant and irrelevant past. Not us!

Dr Peter Slowe

Beech View

Angmering

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