Object
Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission
Representation ID: 3845
Received: 24/02/2023
Respondent: The Bosham Association
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
The local plan cannot guarantee any major road improvements to mitigate congestion and building housing on the scale proposed in the local plan is guaranteed to exacerbate the congestion and pollution levels in the Chichester District. Currently every major junction is well over capacity at peak times and has been since the last local plan was produced in 2014. The roads are becoming unusable and adding 10000 houses to the district with no mitigation is against the wishes of the residents who have made Chichester District Council aware of the problem.
There should be a moratorium on building in the area until there is a definitive plan for upgrading the strategic road network.
Policy A11 and Policy A12 should be removed from the plan because most of this traffic will access the strategic road network via the Fishbourne Roundabout which is the most heavily congested and the roundabout identified in the Chichester District Council Local Plan Transport Assessment as being the most in need of measures to improve congestion delays.
The local plan cannot guarantee any major road improvements to mitigate congestion and building housing on the scale proposed in the local plan is guaranteed to exacerbate the congestion and pollution levels in the Chichester District. Currently every major junction is well over capacity at peak times and has been since the last local plan was produced in 2014. The roads are becoming unusable and adding 10000 houses to the district with no mitigation is against the wishes of the residents who have made Chichester District Council aware of the problem.