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Representation ID: 5938

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Southbourne is a good location for development being located within active travel distance of Southbourne railway station, with its good train service that currently has 3 trains per hour to Chichester, 2 per hour to Portsmouth and 1 per hour to London, Brighton and Southampton.

Development at Southbourne is consistent with the rail industry West Sussex Connectivity Modular Plan and GTR strategy for West Coastway to be consulted later in 2023

10.52 Suggests that Southbourne would be a suitable location for development in the later part of the plan period.
However, with its good train service, and rail industry strategy Southbourne will be a good location for development before many of the other locations in the plan where access is more challenging, distant from good public transport links and will inevitably be dominated by car access or location extending smaller location, but not by enough to justify increasing the train service.