The housing needs to be limited to 2,699 houses to take into account the proposed allocation from government targets reduced by 76.5% to reflect the land in the Chichester District which cannot be developed because it is in the South Downs National Park or forms part of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Policy A11 and A12 need to be removed from the plan.
Policy A13 should be limited to 300 houses.

There is no capacity within the strategic road network to accommodate the additional traffic the housing proposed in this plan will create and there is no guaranteed upgrade to the strategic road network planned. The proposed local plan seems to predate the Chichester District Council’s Local Plan Transport Assessment (CDCLPTA) which was released in January 2023. The transport assessment confirms what residents have known for the last 10+ years: the strategic road network is at capacity. The CDCLPTA was aware that the 6 major junctions were at capacity in 2014 and nothing has been done since to improve the situation.