Your Say

Who is the person responsible for the mindless removal of the trees along the road near Angmering school?

I was delighted to hear that Aldi, Premier Inn and Pure Gym are falling over themselves to move into Teville Gate.

My father was police officer. Forty years in the police, unblemished record and eight commendations to his name.

I was very sorry to hear the Compass No. 15 service is being withdrawn now the funding from the two new estates has come to an end.

I was recently made aware that a decision has been made to change the grey refuse bin collection from weekly to fortnightly.

There was quite a bit in your paper recently from West Sussex County Council leader Louise Goldsmith attempting to justify the increase in council tax for the coming year.

No, David Bettiss, you are not the only local resident who is utterly depressed – and I’m adding disgusted – by the destruction of the beautiful mature trees that once stood proudly, and for many years, along the A259 from the Angmering roundabout down to the Roundstone bypass (letters, March 7).

I write this letter to mark the rise and fall of the Cornfield ward of Littlehampton Town Council.

In response to your recent news story on the plans for Teville Gate, I understand there will be a gym, where a gym already exists less than 200 yards away.

The long-anticipated and planned-for footpath for Manor Road, North Lancing, is now completed and makes walking much safer, as pedestrians no longer have to keep crossing Manor Road, which is a busy road and also used as a rat run from the dreaded A27.

So, the not-entirely unexpected planning application is now in from Persimmon homes and Sompting Estate to build 520 houses in West Sompting.

There was a striking difference between the pictorial and written content of the Gazette letters page last week – photos of local nature and complaints about the destruction of it.

Through your letters page, may I appeal to the beach office and council to do something about speeding cyclists on the promenade?

I was a little concerned to read your news report by James Butler and Oli Poole (Worthing Herald, February 28, and online)

One can only hope that the delay by the Secretary of State in determining the New Monks Farm development and the proposed IKEA is because he is aware of the complexity of the scheme and the opposition to it.

The Coastal West Sussex Partnership continues to strongly support the New Monks Farm development.

According to a report in last week’s Herald, Adur District Council intends to demolish a public toilet in Lancing and will not replace it because, it says, there are four others already available in the village.

Like me, many will have been outraged to read that West Sussex County Council’s leader Louise Goldsmith had announced an increase of 4.99 per cent in council tax for the coming year, the maximum increase they could implement without a Government penalty.

You may have seen some of the local newspaper reports from around the country over the last couple of weeks about me being an amateur writer and how something very bizarre happened to me last year which resulted in me writing a book for a multi-millionaire who gives his money away to complete strangers.