8.11

50 percent of the CIL money, section 106 and other money raised from housing developers will be allocated to cycle lanes, low traffic neighbourhoods and measures that promote low emission travel. This may mean that schemes that are essential to improving car travel on the A27 will need to be delayed or scrapped

If all the funding from housing development is going towards the upgrade of Fishbourne and Bognor roundabouts, about 45 million pounds as an upper estimate, and no funding of a similar magnitude is going towards low car neighbouhoods, cycle lanes and active travel, this policy is inconsistent with the rest of the local plan and therefore unsound

7.4 does not show or explain the impact to Chichester/Bognor Cycle Path. Has the impact of sustainable travel been considered as part of the mitigation?
7.7 Impact on pedestrian safety should be considered and explained
7.3 Correct the figure and remove the SLR.

Revisit the Assessment for consistency with the plan

Figure 7.4 Bognor Road and Vinnetrow Road Combined Concept scheme - insufficient detail.
Figure 7.7 A250 Cathedral Way/Fishbourne Road/Terminus Road proposed mitigation "Removal of existing traffic islands to facilitate all movement crossroad junction" compromises safe access to eg supermarket
Figure 7.3 No detailed figure of the Fishbourne roundabout mitigation itself. Figure includes Stockbridge Link Road which is NOT part of the submission as it is not funded.
If the transport assessment does not have correct diagrams, does this reflect a wider issue with the document not supporting the content of the Local Plan submission?

A revised development/transport strategy needs to be articulated which will provide a pathway to ensuring that requisite road improvements to address existing problems and accommodate new development can actually be funded and delivered within an appropriate timescale.

The limited A27 junction improvements now proposed in this paragraph are stated to be subject to ‘ongoing monitor and manage processes and funding’.

Not justified – not an appropriate strategy
Not effective – improvements likely not deliverable during plan period through lack of funding

In relation to the adoption of a ‘monitor and manage’ approach for problems which already exist and will inevitably be exacerbated by new development please see my comments on paragraph 8.10 above.

As to funding it is made clear in paragraph 8.12 that the whole cost of these works cannot be funded by developer contributions alone and no additional funding sources have been identified. Paragraph 8.21 indicates that the full amount of developer contributions will not in any event be received until all new dwellings provided for in the south of the plan area in the period up to 2039 have been supplied.

On the National Highways website page relating to the A27 Chichester Bypass it is stated that this section of the A27 ‘continues to suffer from high accident rates, daily congestion and excessive queuing at most of the junctions along this 5km stretch of road. With traffic due to increase by 24% by 2035 this situation will consistently worsen if there is no intervention’

Given that the requirement for these A27 junction improvements has already been recognised as an immediate need and will inevitably be exacerbated by future development conditionality on ‘monitor and manage processes’ and ‘funding’ does not provide an appropriate basis on which to proceed with further development.

https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/pipeline-of-possible-future-schemes/a27-chichester-bypass/

See attached.