The government needs to put this mess right
WITH reference to George Marshall's comments on the diabolical situation at the Downlands area of the A27, I spent my youth in Broadwater and in those days the area behind the Downlands public house (before Beefeater and Toby) was nursery land and due to the local council and government mishandling, all nurseries in the Worthing area closed.
These nurseries produced the best mushrooms and tomatoes which in those days went to Covent Garden and were also exported, (we now get tomatoes from Egypt, ha, ha!)
The reason I raise this point is because the land was already classed as "business land" so any trade could move in after the nurseries closed.
The councillors at the time realised there was an opportunity for all businesses to bid for this area, with no thought on the congestion this would cause on the A27.
We nearly had a decision in the 1980s for a bypass which would go from Hoe Court, Lancing to the Arundel Road at Castle Goring.
Unfortunately the councillor who lived in Findon did not want this bypass to go through the Cissbury area and voted against the move (this would have been a tunnel under Salvington).
I agree with George Marshall's comments that a vast amount of money has been wasted on "penny- pinching".
We need a bypass now and all local MPs should be putting pressure on the government to put this mess right.
Peter Knight
Langdale Close
Sompting
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