The current plan to add "at least" 200 new houses in the village of Hunston is totally inappropriate and unacceptable.
1/ This increases the housing in Hunston by 35% which is not a small increase but a matter of forcing social change.
2/ Such an increase would start the process of joining Hunston and N. Mundham and, with the opening of the Free school and its associated highway changes, inexorably lead to the area being absorbed into Chichester City and both villages losing their identity. If there is an intention to do this then it must be openly declared. To my astonishment I understand that Hunston has been designated as "Urban" rather than "Rural".
3/ The B2145 is already one of the busiest B roads in England. There has been a tragic traffic related fatality of a pedestrian in the village in the last year and recent requests for a controlled crossing to allow access to the children's playground have been refused. If the proposed additional 200 houses for the village, 250 houses planned for Selsey and and a further 150 for the W Wittering and Birdham are taken into account, then the traffic flow through the village will increase very significantly. There is no possibility of improving the road through the village (without demolishing a significant part of it). A significant number of houses in the village centre sit some 3m or less from the roadway. So consequently traffic flow levels will be totally unacceptable. Current estimates indicate that the developments on the Manhood Peninsular will add 900 cars to the B2145 and 800 to the B2166, that will meet at the roundabout north of Hunston. My understanding is that any development should not produce significant traffic increases. This proposed development is guaranteed to do exactly that.
4/ Much of the proposed development area is very low lying (some 5m above sea level) and turning most of it into housing, driveways and roads are bound to aggravate the chance of local flooding especially as it seems to be Southern Water's policy not to take away surface water from local developments but insist that new developments provide local soak away facilities. This will concentrate rain water run off and cause flooding.
5/ Having the cars from 200 more homes (plus 250 new homes in Selsey) trying to access the B2145 and then the A27 is a planning nightmare. The current situation is that traffic from the A27 often queues back to the village centre in the morning, a situation aggravated by traffic accessing the new Free School, which we were told would not cause any traffic issues.
6/ The proposed changes to the junction of the B2145 and the A27 (Wyke Roundabout) are totally counterproductive, and will likely increase unnecessary traffic on the A27 (having to travel to the next roundabout to do a U turn) and also in Chichester City as vehicles try to find alternatives routes. It must be borne in mind that there is a very heavy traffic of large container type lorries, heading to and from the rest of the UK and Europe serving the very important farming industry on the Manhood Peninsular. The roads in the Peninsular are winding and narrow but by no means quiet county lanes. The fact that it is a Peninsular means that there are very few ways on and off. All these will see a massive increase in traffic with very few opportunities for serious effective mitigation.

Overall I cannot support these proposals.