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Representation ID: 4271

Received: 15/03/2023

Respondent: The Goodwood Estates Company Limited

Agent: HMPC Ltd

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Issues arising from inadequacies of the A27 and its local and national importance are acknowledged. Proposals to improve connectivity to and upgrading of that route are supported. Route improvement through the Government’s RIS3 programme is to be welcomed. It is not for the local plan to make proposal for this national route but it can examine and make proposals for the local network connecting to it. Failure to invest in the local road network gives rise to many examples of movement restriction and capacity limitations, that in turn are manifest in added congestion on and around the existing A27.

While options for improvements to the A27 are not a matter for this local plan, undoubtedly comment will be raised about by-pass options and requests for the consequential safeguarding of land to facilitate construction. The planning authority will be well aware of the Estate’s objection to any proposal for an A27 northern by-pass, a consequence which will result in the loss of the Goodwood Motor Circuit and airfield, with serious and direct adverse impacts for other Goodwood business sectors, and with it, loss of a significant and irreplaceable quantum of Goodwood income to the significant detriment to the district and regional economy. References to the A27 in the plan as published are acceptable. However, should it seek to accommodate A27 by-pass options it will be unsound.