The Plan should acknowledge the potential of the Southern Gateway to deliver AT LEAST 270 dwellings, potentially many more, and state that work will continue to create a visionary masterplan for the area through liaison with WSCC, the Post Office, British Rail, the Department of Justice, and other large landowners in the town centre.

There is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redevelop the city centre Southern Gateway area of Chichester to provide many more affordable houses than that included in the Local Plan including the provision of a major hotel, retail, restaurants, a health centre, music venues, modernised Law Courts, a transport hub based at the train station and an innovation centre in the historic bus depot.