Residents make their fury felt at 225 new homes in Bersted, Littlehampton's Boots closes, and the price of a car park earmarked for a Premier Inn Hotel in Hastings has doubled.
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00:00 Hello there, Connor Gormley here, Sussex World Reporter, and this is our daily news bulletin
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00:11 Boots in Littlehampton is set to close later this month.
00:14 The news comes after Boots, the corporate entity, announced plans to cut down from more
00:19 than 2,000 stores to just 1,900 across the UK by June.
00:24 So the Littlehampton branch is just one of 100 that's set to close.
00:27 Although the store is closing, Boots has said shoppers should still be within three miles
00:32 of another branch and staff will apparently be offered alternative roles in other stores.
00:37 Residents in North Burstard have made their fury felt with plans for 225 homes on nursery
00:42 fields.
00:43 They've raised concerns about congestion, surface water drainage and overtaxed infrastructure
00:48 at a public information meeting last week, despite the fact that the plans have already
00:52 been approved and developers Barrett Homes are hoping to welcome the first homeowners
00:56 by December this year.
00:59 A car park site in Hastings, which was earmarked for a premiere in hotels, is set to be sold
01:03 after the building project's cost almost doubled.
01:07 When first agreed in 2019, the project was expected to cost around £7 million, but last
01:11 September cabinet members backed proposals to increase the project's budget to £13.6
01:16 million.
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01:49 Yeah, that's all from me.
01:51 Thank you very, very much for listening.