Bersted residents - Don't forget to voice your housing concerns

Concerned residents of Bersted have been urged to have their say next week about plans for thousands of new homes.

A mobile consultation unit will be open between 7.30am and 3pm on Monday, February 16, at Jubilee Community Centre, off Chalcraft Lane.

It will contain Arun District Council's proposals to earmark farmland a few hundred metres south along Chalcraft Lane for up to 2,500 homes as well as businesses and community facilities.

Initial work on the scheme, dubbed the Bognor Regis Eco-Quarter, has already got under way by the landowners.

North Bersted is already expected to accommodate 650 homes when the site six development on fields on the opposite side of Chichester Road eventually gets underway.

Bersted Parish Council chairman Cllr Brian Knight said he hoped residents would attend Monday's exhibition to say that enough was enough.

"Everybody who can should go along to visit the display. It's very important that people have their say. It's yet more grade one farmland which will end up under concrete," he commented. "The more that type of land gets used for housing the less we are able to grow our own crops as a country.