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With the A27 and all approach roads in the vicinity of Chichester at near standstill both ways for many hours each day, it is ridiculous to suggest that it is near its design capacity. I am appalled that you are considering tinkering with roundabouts on the Chi bypass at the cost of many tens of millions. There are few vaguely intelligent people who don't understand that the ONLY way to overcome the worst problem facing residents of Chichester and all residential areas south of it is to build a new bypass to the NORTH., overcoming any resistance from a very small proportion of local residents/property owners.
It would be very much more sensible to ringfence the funds porposed and offer them uo to Highways England for that nothern bypass.
The proposed housing developments in thr Chi district area are horrendous. I wonder if the equally horrendouse plans for Arun. which are a fait accompli have been factored into the dreadful congestion that exists today.

The housing needs to be limited to 2,699 houses to take into account the proposed allocation from government targets reduced by 76.5% to reflect the land in the Chichester District which cannot be developed because it is in the South Downs National Park or forms part of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Policy A11 and A12 need to be removed from the plan.
Policy A13 should be limited to 300 houses.

There is no capacity within the strategic road network to accommodate the additional traffic the housing proposed in this plan will create and there is no guaranteed upgrade to the strategic road network planned. The proposed local plan seems to predate the Chichester District Council’s Local Plan Transport Assessment (CDCLPTA) which was released in January 2023. The transport assessment confirms what residents have known for the last 10+ years: the strategic road network is at capacity. The CDCLPTA was aware that the 6 major junctions were at capacity in 2014 and nothing has been done since to improve the situation.

The lack of any improvements to the A27 has resulted, as predicted when CDC/WSCC rejected £350m previous funding, in severe road congestion and rat running in surrounding villages and local roads. Discussions with Lavant PC and others must commence immediately and funding must be set aside to implement mitigation measures

Please extend this paragraph to say 'which are often neither designed nor constructed to deal with the cumulative impact and increased maximum size and weight of the new traffic'.

Please extend this paragraph to say 'which are often neither designed nor constructed to deal with the cumulative impact and increased maximum size and weight of the new traffic'.

Neither the local plan nor its strategies should be based on any A27 by-pass premise and should not make provision for any A27 by-pass proposal.

Principal causes of A27 congestion are local traffic movements from and to an inadequate local highway network, made worse by poorly integrated new developments, and conflicted priorities between through and crossing traffic.

The solution is not a very costly “by-pass” of limited economic or environmental benefit. Past by-pass proposals failed to correctly assess the true economic cost of options promoted, the cost and benefits of tackling the issues at a local level of on-line improvements, lack of co-ordinated improvements in the local highway network and a failure to engage appropriately and positively to solve a common problem.