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Overdeveloped

3:13pm Friday 12th March 2010 in


So The Argus is “glad to report” the “positive” news about the revived prospects of massive housing development at Shoreham Harbour (The Argus, March 11).

Many people will not think it positive to increase the population of this already overcrowded area. This new housing is not to replace old sub-standard stock – it is entirely additional and will bring many thousands more people into the area.

Despite fanciful talk of improving the infrastructure, the inevitable result will be more congestion, increased pressure on local services and a significant downgrading of the local quality of life.

Promises of job creation are empty – this is the spin of greedy developers and misguided politicians and planning officers. The jobs created will not even meet the demand of the population influx itself, so the net result will be to worsen, not improve, local unemployment.

Ray Chandler
The Drive, Shoreham

Comments(3)

Christophe Hawtree says...
10:08pm Fri 12 Mar 10

Exactly. Shoreham's charm is that it is something different from a coastal conurbation.

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bug eye says...
12:12am Sat 13 Mar 10

agreed shoreham should not be developed into another bland housing estate draining resources, and full of communters to the jobs in brighton or london. the only jobs created will be the ones for the builders, the current port employs plenty of people who will lose their jobs. the WORKING port is historic and interesting and a release from the hussle and bustle of the brighton seafront. developers are determined to turn the city into a crawley, bland and congested. there maybe some development potential but this should be limited to quality stock to upgrade the area not downgrade it into a council estate eyesore.

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saveHOVE says...
11:02am Sat 13 Mar 10

Anyone who thinks this is a good use of land in the area and that we can take thousands more people living in the area MUST read the nursing story in the Argus today. People are so overstretched at the RSCH that there are questions about how safe anyone is in there - however often they say their mantra after another catastrophic story appears that "lessons have been learned".

The biggest lesson of all is that this whole area is overdeveloped for residential use with dangerously inadequate infrastructure provision for what we already have - hospitals, schools, the lot.

The stampede to the south must be stopped by investing appropriately in other parts of the UK.

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