Criterion 1 should acknowledge local need as including the needs of large estates seeking to provide for staff accommodation, as these are different generally from the provision made through Policy H9.

The Goodwood Estate has traditionally provided housing for its workers. Like many other estates as fewer staff were employed to run estates and its farming practices, Goodwood sold off properties for welcome income used to sustain and maintain the Estate as a whole.

With income generated by its wide-range of world-renowned activities, the Estate has in recent years (Covid excepted) been able to reinvest and buy back land and buildings previously sold off (the former sculpture park being a recent example, and the Goodwood Hotel previously). In the same vein the Estate would like to explore the possibility of providing new housing for staff, particularly those employed in its hospitality and non agricultural and forestry ventures. Such an initiative is frustrated by general rural housing policies.