Policy AL5: Southern Gateway. I welcome much of this proposal and strongly agree with the need to make this key arrival point, for visitors and tourists to Chichester, match in with the grace and history of the City. But I would like to see it much, much more imaginative, with transformational proposals for hotel(s) and fine tourist and community facilities to match those in the centre and to the North of the City, not to speak of the Harbour AONB.
In particular the proposal as it stands does nothing at all to improve the flow of road vehicle traffic in this transport hub. It is almost beyond belief that a plan of this magnitude could have been drawn up without paying any attention to the crying need for a continuous road crossing of the railway line - whether a bridge or an underpass. The congestion in this area is legendary and it must be impinging on the access to and viability of businesses in the city, to say nothing of the economic and environmental/pollution costs of all that queuing traffic, throughout the day. This is deliberately to ignore both health and safety. The implied proposal to limit this crossing to pedestrians and cyclists is short-sighted, unimaginative and detrimental to the future of the whole city.