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Object

Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission

Representation ID: 4395

Received: 16/03/2023

Respondent: Jenny Cole

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Oving Junction Please demonstrate that this is 'bus priority' as the buses now have to travel on the A27 given that they cannot go straight across the Oving Crossroads. This is unsound as the residents will have formed a habit of using the car to leave the estate and the buses will be economically unsustainable if this is ever sorted out.

Change suggested by respondent:

There is scope to further modify this junction to make a better bus priority junction. It needs to be seen holistically and not just a part of National Highways scheme to ensnare the south side of Chichester in barren roads.

Full text:

Re ; Oving Junction "it will been subject to mitigation and is designed to support bus priority". Please demonstrate that this is 'bus priority' as the buses now have to travel on the A27 given that they cannot go straight across the Oving Crossroads. The bus journey doesn't follow a route to pick up maximum passengers from the new estate, and in fact hasn't been implemented despite 4 years of occupied housing on Shopwhyke Lakes development, with the bus stops ready and waiting, but no buses to catch from the stops. This is unsound as the residents will have formed a habit of using the car and the buses will be economically unsustainable if this is ever sorted out.