DM8 suggests: 'Development is located and designed to minimise additional traffic generation and movement, and should not create or add to problems of highway safety, congestion, air pollution, or other damage to the environment'
Building homes and industrial units with a new road joining south of the Fishbourne Roundabout compromises all of these aspects. FB Roundabout is already very dangerous and highly polluting and this will add to standing traffic and the number of vehicles unable to exit the A259 at FB. A hamburger roundabout will necessarily give priority to the main A27 east west routes and all other access points will generate longer queues at peak times than current. Further building in FB and along the A259 westwards will hugely increase the traffic levels joining the A27 at FB because there are no other access routes onto the A27 for Nutbourne, Southbourne, Bosham - all of which have large numbers of homes expected.
Further the new road is planned to be 5m high to avoid the flooding planes - this will seriously damage the views fro AONB at the harbour towards Kingley Vale and the Cathedral.