Lamenting loss of green at Langney Shopping Centre

I heartily agree with Will Miller’s and Paul Lovatt Smith’s planning sentiments (Eastbourne Herald letters January 8.)

A memorable moment for me in 2020 was one Saturday in autumn.

I left Langney Shopping Centre and boom!

The green opposite St Barnabas’ Church in Sandpiper Walk was a building site.

An article in the Herald informed me that planning permission had been granted to build a number of houses on the plot.

The shopping centre looked like a model of 1970’s modernity: a metal pillar pedestrian bridge, a car park, a pub, shops under cover, a village green and a church; it is a stone’s throw from a pond, West Rise Infant School and West Rise Junior School.

The extension is nice; everybody loves a brand new floor to walk on.

The vanished green?

That looks like the pubby, villagey, churchy idea went off the drawing boards.