Object

Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission

Representation ID: 3905

Received: 24/02/2023

Respondent: The Bosham Association

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Objection grounds similar to other strategic allocations proposed within east-west corridor (i.e. A11 and A12), including:

i) insufficient wastewater treatment capacity for housing proposed, and adverse impact on water quality of Chichester Harbour; no guarantee or timetabled plan for upgrades;

ii) lack of road network capacity (esp. Fishbourne roundabout), associated impacts on congestion and air quality, and no guaranteed major improvements.

Change suggested by respondent:

Policy A13 should be limited to 300 houses.

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.