Change of heart keeps footpath plan alive

I AM pleased to advise you that the joint eastern Arun area committee, at its meeting on May 4, gave further consideration to the need for the proposed pedestrian safety scheme, which would involve the provision of a footpath alongside Hobbs Farm Cottages, and other safety measures, in Sea Lane, Rustington.

The committee had been recommended by its working group that no further action should be taken.

I was invited by the chairman, county councillor Bryan McCansh, to address the meeting, and was permitted to deal with this urgent need.

I am pleased to say that my views were endorsed by the committee members.

When the vote was taken at the request of Peter Evans, chairman of the working group, the committee resolved not to proceed with the earlier proposed scheme, involving traffic signals, but instead to instruct the county council highways department to prepare a simplified, pragmatic scheme to provide a footpath outside the cottages, with "give way" traffic control measures.

May I take the opportunity to thank the two chairmen for their courtesy, the committee members for their broad support, and in particular, county councillor Dr James Walsh and Arun councillors Roger Elkins, Ray Steward and Nicholas Wiltshire, who argued so strongly in favour of the need for pedestrian safety provision and without whose most valuable support all proposals might well have been abandoned.

Kenneth Grimes

Broadmark Avenue, Rustington

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