Villagers in Ferring fear a huge new housing estate in a neighbouring town will add to traffic congestion.

The concerns will be voiced at a meeting of Ferring Conservation Group in the village hall on Saturday, April 26, at 10.30am.

Developers want to build more than 800 homes at West Durrington, on the outskirts of Worthing, but there is alarm about the amount of traffic it will generate on the A259, which runs past Ferring.

Conservationists are also worried about alterations to Titnore Lane to serve as an access road to the new estate.

In Ferring itself, the group remains cautious over plans to redevelop parts of the village.

A spokesman said: "Every month there are three or four applications to demolish one house and cram two into the available space.

"Ferring Conservation Group opposes all these applications because they over-burden our roads, our drainage system and our local services and, perhaps worst of all, they change the open texture of a village landscape into that of a suburban estate.

"Every application that gets through makes it easier for the next, on the basis that 'the area is changing anyway, another two bungalows will not make any difference' and so on.

"Our objections do carry weight: Apart from Sea Lane Gardens, recent applications that have been refused include the 'two-for-one' proposal at 23 Langbury Lane while the plan to put a car park on the lawns in front of Viceroy Court was withdrawn."