HOW dare a prominent member of Adur District Council (Neil Parkin, in the June 26 Shoreham Herald) use that tired cliché "nimby" to describe the long-suffering residents of Kingston Buci?
It is not our backyard we are concerned about, but a small, fragile, beach, which should be protected by its village green status from permanent alteration.
Is it ignorance or arrogance that prompts him to mention that the council "is using the mi
nimum space for the car park"?
As for "the beach will be better controlled", that is a joke, after more than a decade of the council's mismanagement of Kingston Beach and its environment.
The council has been reminded over and over again that parking is illegal on a village green, and that there is ample room for vehicles, and access, on the western end of the beach outside the village green, if it reclaims the land beside the Scout hut (clearly indicated by the curved pavement on the A259 marking the former Lighthouse Club entrance).
Adur's historical research has been inadequate.
It is not necessary to alter the law relating to village greens.
The notion of swapping a part of Kingston Beach village green for land at Williams Road is nonsense.
If Adur District Council had been doing its job properly, it would have provided a safe crossing between the Kingston Lane traffic lights and beyond the lighthouse.
It would not have allowed parking on the beach and permission for Sussex Marine Watersports (which is inappropriate for a small beach where swimmers are daily at risk from jet skis breaking the rules).
As for Neil Parkin's pathetic comment about "our brave lifeboatmen" not being appreciated by those of us who live here, whose needs should be his concern, that is simply adding insult to injury.
Regarding the letter from lifeboat's second coxswain (June 19), pointing out that siting the new lifeboat station near the Old Fort is not on, I bow to his experience.
Launching in fierce weather would need the safety of the harbour.
But here's another thought.
Why not transfer Marine Watersports there?
Maria Brown
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