Object
Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission
Representation ID: 4175
Received: 15/03/2023
Respondent: Chidham and Hambrook Parish Council
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? Yes
Duty to co-operate? Yes
If no additional funding is available. The timing of these improvements will depend on the timing of development and will therefore be dependent on commercial decisions by developers. This is not a sound long-term strategy. Moving away from ‘predict and provide’ to ‘monitor and manage’ is a decision made because no additional funding sources have been identified. To build 10,350 homes in the plan area with no such certainty is leaving the A27 open to be being at gridlock constantly. It will become a car park with idling engines.
Reduced housing numbers.
If no additional funding is available. The timing of these improvements will depend on the timing of development and will therefore be dependent on commercial decisions by developers. This is not a sound long-term strategy. Moving away from ‘predict and provide’ to ‘monitor and manage’ is a decision made because no additional funding sources have been identified. To build 10,350 homes in the plan area with no such certainty is leaving the A27 open to be being at gridlock constantly. It will become a car park with idling engines.