Your Say

I agree with Bognor Regis & Littlehampton MP Nick Gibb about the ban on mobile and smartphones in lesson time.

According to the ‘court round-up’ last week, people possessing cocaine, or cannabis, driving without insurance, assaulting a police officer, shoplifting, stealing, driving under the influence of drugs, are not fined as much as the two people that dropped cigarette butts, at over £400 each.

We have now two parcels of publicly owned land in Shoreham that are up for development – Pond Road and the old Civic Centre in Ham Road.

While our local MP, Tim Loughton, is right to compliment some of the good work done by benefits office staff and their partner agencies, facts have arisen in the last few weeks which appear to contradict Mr Loughton’s suggestion that the experience of Universal Credit has been much less problematic locally than it has nationally.

I was interested to see the proposed development of the old HMRC building in Station Approach.

I have just received my copy of West Sussex Connections and I am disgusted by Louise Goldsmith’s comments on why the council tax has to rise.

Not so long ago, Lancing’s Queensway shopping parade had a great deal of money spent on it as part of a scheme that we were told would, quote, ‘Transform the heart of Lancing into a vibrant 21st-century village, a place that is diverse and full of life, with a unique identity and brand that can be experienced virtually as well as physically’.

Should the private motor car be banned from our roads?

There has been much debate on social media in recent weeks about the plight of Littlehampton town centre.

While many people are quite rightly complaining about the Tory cuts to local bus services, less attention has been paid to the causes and few have suggested alternatives.

The development of the Cecil Norris site in Ravens Road, Shoreham, will produce much-needed social housing for rent.

I went on the bus to Worthing last Wednesday, as I often do as it is the town’s market day.

So plans for the old Waitrose site mean yet more retail property going for housing – after all the flats around the station, the old market site, Ockendens, The Globe and General Henry pubs, the list goes on and on.

I agree with the comments of Whispering Smith in the Littlehampton Gazette of January 24, concerning the Waitrose site.

I read with interest the article on affordable homes by your political editor Joshua Powling.

As the Government will be issuing a national waste management policy, there should be no need for local councils to start reviewing their own.

I sincerely hope that when Arun District Council’s planning committee considers the application for 83 dwellings and 41 parking spaces on the old Waitrose site, that it will remember the number of flats, mainly for the elderly, we already have in Littlehampton.

In these troubled times, the news is generally not too good.

Recent press coverage has emphasised the dangers to health of air pollution on busy roads.