5.16- The A27 is the only Strategic Route on the South Coast between Folkestone and Honiton. It is also Chichester residents' local distributor road. This means that the local traffic mixes with 48% through traffic of which a large proportion are HGV vehicles between the major ports of Southampton, Portsmouth and Dover. Chichester's section of the A27 is the only part of the Strategic Route without a diversionary route, so if there is an accident on it there is no alternative route for the through traffic, the local traffic and the visiting tourists, meaning Chichester City, the East West Corridor and the Manhood become gridlocked. According to West Sussex County Council's records of reported accidents on this stretch of the A27 between Portfield and Fishbourne Roundabouts during the 5 years period of 1/12/13- 20/11/18 there were 2 fatalities/26 serious accidents/170 slight accidents- that is on average 39.5 accidents annually on this stretch of the A27 alone.

5.18 Bearing the above point in mind how do CDC go about "discouraging HGVs from using unsuitable roads" considering the fact that the A27 at Chichester according to DFT is the third worst congested road after two stretches of the M25?

5.19 The Manhood Peninsula has major congestion issues when joining the 48% through traffic on the A27 but this has been brushed aside in the statement. A27 at Chichester is described as a bypass: this is no longer correct terminology, as all the development over the years around it has made it a local road in addition to a through road. The only access route by vehicle off/onto the Manhood Peninsula, 26,000 residents at last count, Selsey's population of 11,000 doubles in size during the high season which PBA have not modelled. Add to these numbers the 1,933 proposed developments on the Manhood Peninsula, and it follows that the road infrastructure will not cope and the transport mitigation plans will barely deal with the problem in the long term.

5.31 There are three access points onto the Manhood Peninsula from the A27 they are at 1. Bognor/Vinnetrow Road roundabout connecting onto the B2166, 2.Whyke roundabout connecting to the B2166 to Pagham or B2145 to Selsey and 3. Stockbridge roundabout connecting onto the (i)A286 to East Witterings or via the (ii) B2201 to connect with the B2145. In high season all these access points and roads are gridlocked and unable to cope with the sheer numbers of visitors to the beach areas in addition to residents. When there is an accident on any of these routes chaos ensues as diversionary routes are flooded with rat running all over the Manhood. Accidents on these roads are a regular occurrence, between 1/12/13-30/11/18:
1. B2166 from B215 to Pagham A259 (Via Mundham) 0 Fatal /18 Serious/ 71 Slight
2. B2145 from Whyke to Selsey via Hunston 1 Fatal/ 11 Serious/ 68 Slight
3. (i) A286 Stockbridge to East Witterings 3 Fatal/ 8 Serious /23 slight
(ii)B2201 from Stockbridge via Donnington Village to Selsey 4 Serious/ 12 Slight

CDC are correct in their 5.19 statement that accidents cause "knock on effects in terms of delays and diversion onto less suitable roads, and road safety issues." but these issues aren't just within Chichester City, they also affect the Manhood Peninsula and beyond.

Peter Bretts designs are not the answer as they do more to cause further congestion on the Manhood and increase Air pollution than solve it.

(1)Changes to the Bognor/Vinnetrow roundabout- closing the Vinnetrow junction and placing it on the A259 Bognor Road. The Bognor Road is always congested as it is the main road from Bognor to the A27. This will send the Pagham, Runcton and North Mundham west bound traffic to queue to join the Bognor traffic then queue to access the A27 at the Bognor roundabout giving way to the East bound A27 traffic and blocking the west bound A27 traffic (48,000 vehicle movements daily). Alternatively send the East and West B2166 traffic either to Whyke (with no right hand turns) via the congested Free School area to travel via the A27 to the heavily congested, accident prone Fishbourne roundabout.

(2) Restricting access by no right hand turns at Whyke for traffic travelling west will send traffic bound for the B2145 and B2166 heading to Hunston and Selsey will go through the traffic light controlled Bognor roundabout then go back on itself to Whyke or when they get to Whyke they will turn left up the Whyke Road and execute a U-turn and go back to cross the A27. The intention To use the link road as means of approaching the Free School or Pagham or Hunston will be so cumbersome that few will use it. The other alternative will be for this traffic to turn left at Stockbridge and go through Kingsham and turn right onto the Whyke road and cross the A27. For traffic coming from the East will be obliged to leave the A27 at the Bognor roundabout to make their way across the city adding to the congestion rather than reducing it.

(3) Restricting access by no right hand turns at Stockbridge will cause traffic coming from the West will be obliged to leave the A27 at Fishbourne and cross most of the City to then cross south at Stockbridge and head for Selsey. Traffic from the East wanting to turn right will have either already done so at Bognor roundabout or will do so at Fishbourne: in both cases they will be adding to congestion in the City.

All these manoeuvres will be the chosen route for many when the A27 is blocked by traffic lights at four successive junctions.

Accidents on the Fishbourne roundabout over the past 5 years which have been reported are 7 Serious 41 Slight, the congestion on this roundabout is on daily traffic reports. The A259 East Corridor is having 3,050 new homes built with no new access point onto the A27 at Southbourne. The majority of this traffic will access the A27 at the Fishbourne Roundabout giving way to the City, A27 eastbound and westbound traffic and Stockbridge Link road traffic. Add to this city traffic the 1,600 extra homes and business park at AL1 this whole design is recipe for disaster. It will shift the current AQMA at Stockbridge right along to Fishbourne and the AONB.

Peter Bretts recycled designs have been publicly consulted on on several occasions over some years now and have been roundly rejected each time. As agreed by a clear majority consensus at the BABA27 workshops, what is needed is to separate 48% through traffic from local via a proper bypass to the North.

The two major issues of concern in the mitigation proposals are one the new traffic light controlled crossing of Via Ravenna and Terminus Road which will merely move the traffic jam from the Fishbourne Roundabout to the crossing. Two the A286 and Wophams Lane junction which is a narrow windy country lane presenting very dangerous junctions with the B2201 Selsey Road junction and at junction with the A286. This was sadly epitomised on Saturday 2/2/19 in a fatal accident which led to hours of chaos on roads as far south as Earnley and beyond.

The Peter Brett recycled concepts have been publicly consulted on on several occasions and have been roundly rejected each time. As agreed by a clear majority consensus at the BABA27 workshops, what is needed is to separate 48% through traffic from local via a proper bypass to the North. This will bring the current A27 back to 1990 levels and would mean its capacity will continue well after 2035 and the proposed housing in this plan. Wasting money on this short term fix which doesn't actually solve anything but makes congestion and air quality worse leading to a huge waste of money.