2016 Planning obligations and Affordable Housing SPD
Para 2.7 “The Council has continued to press for improvements to the A27 Chichester Bypass to be addressed by central government funding and there has been continual engagement between the Council and National Highways over the past decade seeking to achieve this end. However, in spite of these efforts, no other sources of funding have been made available to address the shortfall from the funding secured through development contributions”.
Comment: Pressing National Highways for funding will be fruitless as it regards CDC as solely responsible. As will be shown later, this process will take years, if ever, to be concluded. See Comment in the Planning Contributions section.

CDC needs to demonstrate to our MP (not to National Highways) the pressing need for her to engage with the SoS for Transport with the aim of bringing the A27 at Chichester out of its current uncommitted ‘pipeline’ ranking in RIS 4 (2030 to 2035) back to RIS 3 (2025 to 2030)-see page 94 in the Route Strategy in https://nationalhighways.co.uk/RS-South-Coast-Central.
RIS 3 will take effect before the pursuit of mitigations through increasing developer contributions can (if ever achieved) with costs inevitably continuing to rise along the way and requirements changing. It should also be noted that this will only cover the Fishbourne and Bognor roundabouts and not include the Stockbridge and Whyke junctions, thus delivering an unsatisfactory outcome.