Plan needs move away from conservation areas otherwise Council will be acting unlawfully. To protect and preserve views, farmland and rural nature of historic Tangmere, conservation area needs to be extended to incorporate Tangmere and Oving. Council should look to use brownfield sites rather than destroy greenfield sites. Council should prioritise using unused buildings within city centre and urban sites to comply with its legal obligations under P11.

Local authorities are required by law to preserve or enhance their Conservation Areas and part of that is to
process is the production of a character appraisal to explain what is important about the area. I think that
policy 11 has not been legally complied with as the council has failed in that its building plan fails to
“preserve and enhance” its conservation area. In fact, far from being legally compliant, the council has
ignored and disregarded the Character Appraisal carried out for it which concludes: “that the most
significant features of the Tangmere Conservation Area are:
- Tranquil and rural character of the earlier historic core along Church Lane.” (see relevant marked
page from the Character appraisal) and extract from page 10 Tangmere Conservation Area
(character appraisal and management proposals 2014)
The heritage of the “historic core” centres around the Saxon church (mentioned in the Doomsday Book) and
its immediate environs i.e. Saxon Meadow and the fields surrounding it and Saxon Meadow.
The commonwealth graves situated in St Andrew’s Churchyard are of national importance and deserve to
be surrounded with tranquillity and treated with respect. The links with WW11, the battle of Britain and
Douglas Barder should be noted.
The views into and from Saxon Meadow include wide open farmland with vistas that incude Oving Church
Spire and Chichester Cathedral spires, as well as the South Downs. This farm land and the historic views
within in both into and out of Saxon Meadow are worth saving and protecting for future generations. Indeed,
the Saxon church of St Andrew’s Tangmere has an historical link with St Andrew’s Church, Oving which is
situated along Church Lane in Oving. The fact that you can see the spire of the linked churches I,e from
Oving you can see Tangmere church spire and vice versa is of import as there is an historical link between
the two churches.
The rural nature of the historic tangmere around church lane, its wide open vistas and good arable farm
land should be “preserved and protected” not destroyed. The plan is in total contrast this legal duty. The
size, density and proximity of the buildings in a rural setting is unsympathetic and will destroy what I would
have thought a conservation area was established to preserve.
For the reasons above the plan is also unsound.
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