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This letter has been prompted by two things I read in The Herald last week: the steady demise of Lancing village centre and the proposal for setting up a community land trust (CLT) to provide community-led affordable housing.

Why doesn’t Lancing Parish Council – with it’s many UKIP and ex-UKIP councillors – ‘take back control’ by setting up a community land trust?

Community land trusts can be involved with setting up a whole range of community facilities apart from affordable housing.

In other areas they have set up credit unions – a solution to there being no banks – community shops, small office/workshop space for businesses, swimming pools, in other words whatever will benefit and enhance the civic life of a community.

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Lancing community needs to take back control to prevent village demise