More than 80 people from Brighton and Peacehaven lobbied water company directors as they met in Worthing yesterday.
Chanting and waving banners outside the Southern Water board meeting, they called for Upper Sheepcote Valley, Brighton, and Peacehaven East to be dropped as potential sites of an urgently-needed new sewage works for Brighton and Hove.
John Carden, of Peacehaven Labour Party, said: "As far as I am concerned Southern Water has got to start thinking brownfield sites. It has got to be a brownfield site."
Brighton demonstrators were represented by pressure group East Brighton Unite!
Upper Sheepcote Valley and Peacehaven East are among eight potential sites identified by Southern Water for the new sewage works.
The company, which said the issue was not on the agenda at yesterday's meeting, expects to make an announcement later this month on where it wants to build.
Wednesday July 16, 2003
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