Plaistow and Ifold Parish Council notes that there is no like-for-like replacement of Chichester’s current Local Plan 2014 – 2029 Policy 25, ‘Development in the North of the Plan’ in the emerging plan; but there is a substantial amount of explanation about the area strategy in the supporting text for Chapter 2 and in the supporting text for Policy S1, which is the spatial development strategy.

The Council would have liked to see a policy more explicitly linking the nature and capacity of the spatial areas with the proposed housing allocations. This was achieved in Policy 25 of the current adopted Local Plan.

The Spatial Strategy and recognition of different landscapes is supported by Plaistow and Ifold Parish Council; however, the distinctive differences of the landscapes within the District are not adequately followed through and protected within policy. As drafted, NE10 does not help to conserve the distinctive qualities of the landscapes as it is not specific. The separate/distinctive Policy 25, ‘Development in the North of the Plan’ within Chichester’s current Local Plan 2014 – 2029 helps to underline and support Chichester’s aspiration to conserve and enhance the distinctive landscape in the North of the Plan Area, which is currently significantly weakened by the omission of a distinctive policy in the current draft version of the Plan.