Object
Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission
Representation ID: 5676
Received: 17/03/2023
Respondent: Countryside Properties
Agent: Turley
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
(1)(i) should be expressed as preference of council, not binary requirement -may be subject to design considerations on site-by-site basis. Term ‘accessing’ is ambiguous, could refer to other modes of transport. Point 2. mentions adoption of a specific threshold of impact which is not defined for either Transport Statements or Assessments. Further clarification required. In 3. Should also be recognised that monitoring would offer an opportunity for Travel Plan targets to be reviewed regularly to ensure they remain relevant or can respond to exogenous factors/external influences. Conditions at time of production of Travel Plan may change in the future.
Suggest at (1)(a) Council consider replacing ‘reduce’ by ‘minimise’, as to 'reduce' implies that this should be from a specific baseline, when in fact sustainable developments will be designed to include this objective at the outset.
(1)(i) Use wording ‘delivery access and servicing’.
(1)(j), suggest that ‘Provide’ is replaced by ‘Provide or contribute towards’ to provide flexibility for development to jointly fund specific mitigation measures.
Consider adding the following bullet:
"3. d) appoint a Travel Plan Co-ordinator whose role will be to oversee the implementation of the Travel Plan and use the outcome of monitoring to review its targets to ensure continued relevance”.
See attachment.