Residents have launched an action plan to fight 90 houses which may be built on the Downs at Worthing.

More than 50 people living in the Beeches Avenue and Pines Avenue areas of Worthing met at the Broadwater Baptist Church in Dominion Road, Worthing, on Monday night and started a committee to fight the proposed development.

They fear recommendations in an inspector's report into the Worthing Local Plan would ruin the countryside and cause traffic chaos.

Meeting organiser Terri Connolly, who has lived in Beeches Avenue for three years, said: "Everyone was positive about formalising a strategy.

"It is not that we don't want the houses built at all but they should be built in the right place. We should not have to lose a beautiful piece of the Downs."

Residents have spent the last few weeks looking at alternative brown sites in the area.

Mrs Connolly urged residents to attend a meeting with Worthing MP Tim Loughton, who will visit Beeches Avenue and look at the site plan, on Saturday at 11.30am.

A public meeting will be held at Worthing Town Hall on March 14 at 6pm. The report will be available to the public at the town hall from Monday or Tuesday.