Object

Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission

Representation ID: 3840

Received: 24/02/2023

Respondent: The Bosham Association

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Building 84% (8717 houses) of the allocated housing along the east-west corridor is not justifiable. There are no guaranteed upgrades to the sewage network or the strategic road network in this area. The areas proposed rely on wastewater treatment facilities which are already over capacity. The road network cannot cope and there are modelled peak time delays of 29 minutes to access the Fishbourne roundabout if this scale of development goes ahead. The Fishbourne roundabout has been over-capacity since 2014 and no measures have been taken to improve the situation. There is nothing guaranteed in the plan to address this.

Change suggested by respondent:

Policy A11 needs to be removed from the local plan.
Policy A12 needs to be removed from the plan.
Policy A13 should be limited to 300 houses.
The housing numbers allocated in the plan should be cut to 2,699 and should be allocated based on provision identified in neighbourhood plans.

Full text:

Building 84% (8717 houses) of the allocated housing along the east-west corridor is not justifiable. There are no guaranteed upgrades to the sewage network or the strategic road network in this area. The areas proposed rely on wastewater treatment facilities which are already over capacity. The road network cannot cope and there are modelled peak time delays of 29 minutes to access the Fishbourne roundabout if this scale of development goes ahead. The Fishbourne roundabout has been over-capacity since 2014 and no measures have been taken to improve the situation. There is nothing guaranteed in the plan to address this.