Scheme gives no thought to residents

Robert Templery said: "The scheme has given no thought for the people who live here already.

"It took us half an hour early the other day just to get on to the Chichester Road to go to St Richard's Hospital.

"If you are going to put a large number of cars on there, the system just can't work."

He and his wife are about to move from Pinehurst Park in Aldwick to Pagham for reasons unrelated to the development, but he said people from further afield would be equally affected by the clogged roads.

Mr Templery, 67, added: "There is a shortage of farmland in the world and yet they want to build on more of it.

"You can't be pinching farmland. I don't know how we are going to feed ourselves in the future."

Bognor resident Donald Osborne, 77, of Richmond Avenue, said: "We have got to have the new relief road before we have any more housing.

"If you come from Chichester to Bognor from 4pm, the road is packed with vehicles.

"It will be the wrong way round to add to them by building more houses.

"I don't mind where they build the houses, they have got to go somewhere, but the road must come first."

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