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Representation ID: 5907

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

8.8 Increasing road capacity is not key to supporting growth, as increasing road capacity generates additional traffic that creates increased congestion in existing communities that stifles economic activity in those communities and tends to move economic activity away from local businesses out of town to locations that are good for road based activity fuelling a vicious circle.

The opening sentence of 8.8 is not compatible with Chichester District Council’s declared Climate Emergency or the rest of 8.8 which is the key to the long-term future of Chichester and the rest of the coastal plain for future generations.

It is critical that the mindset changes from a presumption of car use calling active travel and public transport alternatives to the car to a presumption of everyone requiring access with a hierarchy starting with access without transport, followed by walking, cycling and public transport and a presumption that if access only possible by bottom of the hierarchy motor transport the development is unsustainable and should not go ahead.