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Having lived most of my 60 odd years in and around Worthing,
I must agree with the writer.

I have the unlucky drive all week to Lancing, with the wonderful road layout along the main coast road.

This is also along a dull and uninspiring sea front.

All I see each day is piles of black bags across the pavements, rough sleepers in the shelters and tatty, old and tired hotels.

Then I pass the Aquarena.

Again a masterpiece of council planning.

When it was built, it was too small.

Now they are looking for a new site.

Why not knock down the existing building, taking-in the whole site, including the padling and boating pool and sea front.

Then build a centre that would place Worthing on the map.

But most probably they will come up with a site that no-one can reach without a car, then put-in no car spaces unless they are run by NCP,
in a position that no one wants.

As the letter writer said, the town centre is tatty, dirty and empty.

But like the Worthing bypass, I do not expect any change in my lifetime.

Why? Because Worthing is stuck in the 1960s, with a council that has a village-type mindset.

Derek Wigzell
Warnham Road
Worthing