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To: Arun District Council
ACT NOW TO OBJECT TO PLANNING APPLICATION (K/25/16/PL) ON WEST KINGSTON BEACH!
Don't give planning permission for the boat club "car park".
We are concerned residents who urge others living on West Kingston Estate and Angmering On Sea to act now to save our beach.
We are very sympathetic to the needs of the club to relocate, but we simply can not allow any form of building work on our beach. We are willing to help the club find a new home and urge anyone with a suitable location to let Arun District Council know please.
Why is this important?
The application goes against numerous policies in the Arun Local Plan. The site is outside the built up area, where the only development that might be approved would be sea defences. A planning application for a shelter for one boat was rejected in 2015 and the refusal was upheld on appeal, because the small shelter, less than one metre high, was considered to harm the open character of the beach and was therefore contrary to policy GEN7 of the Local Plan. An enclosure 2.85 metres high to accommodate 60 boats, which includes a building 13.6 metres long, must also be contrary to planning policy.
There are also practical problems about the site: the roads approaching it are private, and the owners have said that they will note provide the Open Dinghy Club with the right to use them. There is a section of car park between the road west of the site, South Strand, which is attached to the house south of it, and its owner, Caroline Bond, has said she will not allow the club to cross her land. So the site can only be reached on foot or from the sea, and construction of the enclosure and building seems impossible.
Please let Arun District Council know your thoughts, today.
How it will be delivered
We will email this link to Arun District Council and stage a press conference, so please add your comments below.
