LETTER: Sinking feeling from project

I find it amazing that Adur council has recently granted permission for a nine-storey building to be built in Brighton Road, providing 540 residences.

I confess that this riverbank project has given me a sinking feeling – especially since the council must have realised that by adding only a further five storeys they could have increased the number of dwellings by 300, as well as providing a lift to a much-needed heliport on the building’s roof.

A heliport would have brought in more revenue for the council coffers, giving the gridlocked motorists the means of getting to Brighton for a set fee and then back again to their (still) parked cars.

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What sort of council have we elected? Where’s their imagination? Where’s their foresight? As it stands, without the revenue from a heliport they’ll just be getting jam today – and traffic jam tomorrow. Surely someone should have warned them...?

Trevor Harvey

Greenacres, Shoreham

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