Developers plan to demolish a fridge factory and office buildings in a village and build 90 new homes.

The land, in Rose Green Road, Rose Green, near Bognor, has become the focus of an application which has attracted fierce opposition from residents.

Osborne Refrigerators Ltd has been based at the site for 45 years making refrigerators, mainly for the catering trade.

Aldwick Parish Council has objected to the proposals to Arun District Council's planning department, which will decide whether to give the scheme the go-ahead.

Parish councillors are worried about losing employment space in favour of housing.

North Mundham Parish Council expressed concern that a housing development south of the A27 was being considered before improvement work on the road had taken place.

Arun's planners also received a total of 18 letters of objection, many of them arguing that new homes would only exacerbate existing problems on the area's roads and put extra strain on doctors' surgeries.

The 58 houses and 32 flats would be built in traditional brick, maybe with part-flint walls and would include 40 per cent affordable housing.

Founded on February 5, 1960, by former Lec employee Jeff Osborne, the company started off in Merchant Street and later moved to West Street, Bognor, before moving to the former wood yard in Rose Green in March 1966.

Mr Osborne, the company's managing director, said he was selling the factory as it was now too big for the business which was moving to new premises 100 yards down the road.

With competition from China and current business rates on the factory of more than £500 a day, Mr Osborne said it was becoming more difficult to get a profit.

He said the company would continue to employ its current staff of 65 at the new premises, many of whom he has employed for 40 years or more.

Mr Osborne said: "We are looking forward to the move. The new factory will have state-of-the-art equipment and we will continue to manufacture first-class refrigerators as we have always done."

Planning officers have recommended that the plans are approved.

Arun's development control committee will consider the scheme at a meeting on Wednesday.

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