It is difficult to comment in detail on this document as it is lacking in detail, However I wish to comment in general
The plan is supposed to be an overarching vision of the future of the Chichester area . What we get is a great deal of housing and employment land development there is no "vision"
The plan ignores the "elephant in the room" of a gridlocked A27 for much of the day and merely remarks that small modifications to the junctions will serve to counteract any increase in traffic due to the new developments so as to make the situation at least "no worse". As for the strategic East/west flow of heavy goods traffic having major health consequences through degradation of air quality little mention is made. Brief reference only to the council's support for either a mitigated northern route or an improved southern route.
The local planning authorities (including the Greater Brighton Planning Board ! ) should plainly and clearly state that they want a Northern route without any intermediate junctions which would cost within the budget set for RIS1 . The then Earl of March, now the Duke of Richmond, argued fiercely against a Northern route and demonstrated at a lavish presentation at Goodwood House how a Northern route would ruin the whole Goodwood Estate's business at a cost of billions. No effort was made to do any cost/benefit analysis and my own councillor John Connor who was present came away dewey eyed and clutching a lavishly printed and coat of arms decorated, velour cloth covered, brochure backing Goodwood's case which he kindly allowed me to read.
The original route proposed by HE in 2016 was for a junctionless Northern route. Shortly afterwards a multilevel junction with the A286 was added and costed at slightly above the RIS 1 budget and so was disallowed. HE claim not to have costed their original idea , which might well have been within budget, but this is ridiculous. How can they claim to know the cost of the road with a multi level junction but not to know the cost of the same road without the junction? The value of such a junction is in any case debatable as it would serve the lightly populated SDNP., so 0ne wonders why it should have been added? Could it be that it was added simply to push up the cost making it unaffordable thereby pleasing the Duke of Richmond?