Littlehampton residents win battle to keep our lorries

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to protect their streets from cumbersome skip lorries removing waste from a proposed redevelopment of a Littlehampton school have this week won their battle.

More than 100 residents, backed by recently-elected town councillor Ian Buckland, have been successful in their efforts to oppose the access and exit arrangements for the proposed construction site at River Beach Primary School, which could have seen large lorries passing through the already cramped and narrow streets nearby.

The campaigners claimed York Road, Queen Street and Connaught Road would not be able to cope with the sheer scale of the traffic movement to and from the site and appealed to West Sussex County Council to reconsider the scheme before granting planning permission.