I am puzzled. Prior to the meeting at Worthing's Assembly Hall to discuss the building of hundreeds of homes in Titnore Woods, Southern Water said it could cope with the demand (The Argus, June 7).

Now that the development has been approved, Southern Water says it will be unable to cope unless there is complusory water metering.

The propsed house-building programe though Sussex, of which Titnore is just one example, will create huge environmental problems.

-Linda Ashton, Muirfield Road, Worthing