A revised development/transport strategy needs to be articulated which will provide a pathway to ensuring that requisite road improvements to address existing problems and accommodate new development can actually be funded and delivered within an appropriate timescale.

The limited A27 junction improvements now proposed in this paragraph are stated to be subject to ‘ongoing monitor and manage processes and funding’.

Not justified – not an appropriate strategy
Not effective – improvements likely not deliverable during plan period through lack of funding

In relation to the adoption of a ‘monitor and manage’ approach for problems which already exist and will inevitably be exacerbated by new development please see my comments on paragraph 8.10 above.

As to funding it is made clear in paragraph 8.12 that the whole cost of these works cannot be funded by developer contributions alone and no additional funding sources have been identified. Paragraph 8.21 indicates that the full amount of developer contributions will not in any event be received until all new dwellings provided for in the south of the plan area in the period up to 2039 have been supplied.

On the National Highways website page relating to the A27 Chichester Bypass it is stated that this section of the A27 ‘continues to suffer from high accident rates, daily congestion and excessive queuing at most of the junctions along this 5km stretch of road. With traffic due to increase by 24% by 2035 this situation will consistently worsen if there is no intervention’

Given that the requirement for these A27 junction improvements has already been recognised as an immediate need and will inevitably be exacerbated by future development conditionality on ‘monitor and manage processes’ and ‘funding’ does not provide an appropriate basis on which to proceed with further development.

https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/pipeline-of-possible-future-schemes/a27-chichester-bypass/