Chichester Local Plan 2021-2039 - Main Modifications consultation

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To the north of the A27, there are a series of small villages and hamlets interspersed with farmland and woodland. This area provides a transition into the South Downs National Park. Opportunities for development in this area appear to be limited due to land availability, landscape considerations, including the setting of the National Park, settlement patterns and available infrastructure. For these reasons, the Plan does not propose to provide for any significant development in these areas. This position will be kept under review as the Plan moves forward. The Plan does provide for 30 dwellings in the service village of Westbourne and 50 dwellings at Boxgrove, which is also a service village, to come forward through the neighbourhood planning process.

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The north of the plan area covers those parts of Chichester District which lie northof the South Downs National Park boundary and includes its setting. This includes Loxwood Parish and most of the parishes of Kirdford, Plaistow and Ifold, and Wisborough Green, together with a small part of Lynchmere Parish close to the Surrey border around the villages of Camelsdale and Hammer.

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Additional sentence at end of Policy.

Policy Text Update:

Policy S1 Spatial Development Strategy

The spatial development strategy identifies the broad approach to providing sustainable development in the plan area. It seeks to disperse development across the plan area by:

1. Focusing the majority of planned sustainable growth at Chichester city and within the east-west corridor,
2. Reinforcing the role of Manhood Peninsula as a home to existing communities, tourism and agricultural enterprise, and
3. Where opportunities arise, sSupporting the villages and rural communities in the North of the Plan Area.

To help achieve sustainable growth the council will:

4. Ensure that new residential and employment development is distributed in line with the settlement hierarchy, with a greater proportion of development in the larger and more sustainable settlements:

5. Non-strategic provision is made for the following forms of development in the settlement hubs of Selsey and East Wittering:
   1. Retail development and local community facilities of an appropriate scale to promote the vitality and viability of the town centres;
   2. Employment, tourism or leisure proposals of a suitable scale and nature for the characteristics of the area;
6. Non-strategic provision is made for the following forms of development in service villages:
   1. Small-scale housing developments consistent with the indicative housing numbers set out in Policy H3;
   2. Local community facilities, including village shops, that meet identified needs within the village, neighbouring villages and surrounding smaller communities, and will help make the settlement more self-sufficient; and
   3. Small-scale employment, tourism or leisure proposals.
7. Provision for the above is made through this Local Plan, the extant Site Allocation Development Plan Document 2014-2029 (or subsequent Site Allocation DPD) and through neighbourhood plans¹⁶.

To ensure that the council delivers its housing target, the distribution of development may need to be flexibly applied, within the overall context of seeking to ensure that the majority of new housing is developed in accordance with this Strategy where appropriate and consistent with other policies in this plan. Any changes to the distribution will be clearly evidenced and monitored through the Authority Monitoring Report.

Additional housing allocations, if required, will be made through the Site Allocation DPD (or review of the Local Plan).

¹⁶See Appendix H for detail on saved Site Allocation DPD

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Chichester Harbour AONB boundary not clear where it is overlaid with roads - make boundary clearer