- Land is flood plain. The average flood water height on the River Lavant is 2.05m above sea level. The road will therefore be elevated by an absolute minimum of 2 metres which is completely unacceptable.
- The development would destroy the unique view of the cathedral framed by the South Downs. Chichester is the only Cathedral in the UK visible form the Sea and the best view of it is from the Fishbourne Channel.
-Noise generated by the road would not be acceptable in terms of Policy DM25.
-Waste Water Treatment provision is inadequate.
-There is no pedestrian access from the North. A footbridge would be required to access across the A27 and the costs for this have not been factored in. (The attempt at refurbishing a footbridge on this stretch of the A27 was a disaster.)
- The link road is A27 Option 2 by the back door - this has already been utterly rejected by the community.

This area has been excluded from development plans in the past December 2016 Report: Site Allocation: Proposed Submission Development Plan Document 2014-2029 P 40). : "Overall this site has the most negative impacts and the fewest positive of all the Chichester options."