Policy S4: Meeting Housing Needs

Resident of West Wittering
Addressing bullet 'place housing in locations which are accessible by public transport to jobs, shopping, leisure, education and health facilities'

The Western Manhood lacks jobs, schools (in particular Secondary and Sixth Form), Health Centre over capacity and causing even more transport issues there has been a very significant increase in home deliveries.

Para 7.5 refers to retirement housing on the Western Manhood there is a surplus of Retirement Flats and nursing homes have closed.

I strongly object to the Chichester Local Plan Review 2035 as it currently stands in relation the Chidham and Hambrook on the following grounds:

1 The local plan promote the coalescence off settlements between Chichester and Emsworth which will adversely impact the special character of the villages.

2 The local plan review has failed to make a proper distribution of housing in the Parish. The so called comprehensive selection process undertaken by the planners in their strategic site allocation exercise and the subsequent approval by CDC is found to be wanting as it is based on developers estimates which have not followed the density benchmarks as per policy DM3 and has also not been modified for locations adjacent to sensitive locations. See Parish Councils response to policy S2 settlement hierarchy.

3 The infrastructure Deliver plan which supports the local plan is not fit for purpose. It does not adequately address the transportation, educational,medical and general amenity needs and timing thereof that will arise in a community which is expected to grow by 50% in the period.

4 The spatial Vision and Strategic Objectives (section 3.6 local plan) and the sustainability appraisal in relation to Chidham and `ham brook are contradictory. (see Parish Council response policy S26/DM19 natural environment). If the latter prevails we will see the loss of key landscape features, the loss of high quality farmland, a further deterioration of water quality and further disruption to important internal migratory birds along the existing natural corridors.

500 houses for Chidham and Hambrook is excessive and is not supported by the documentation and the numbers should be significantly reduced.

DM8 suggests: 'Development is located and designed to minimise additional traffic generation and movement, and should not create or add to problems of highway safety, congestion, air pollution, or other damage to the environment'
Building homes and industrial units with a new road joining south of the Fishbourne Roundabout compromises all of these aspects. FB Roundabout is already very dangerous and highly polluting and this will add to standing traffic and the number of vehicles unable to exit the A259 at FB. A hamburger roundabout will necessarily give priority to the main A27 east west routes and all other access points will generate longer queues at peak times than current. Further building in FB and along the A259 westwards will hugely increase the traffic levels joining the A27 at FB because there are no other access routes onto the A27 for Nutbourne, Southbourne, Bosham - all of which have large numbers of homes expected.
Further the new road is planned to be 5m high to avoid the flooding planes - this will seriously damage the views fro AONB at the harbour towards Kingley Vale and the Cathedral.

The number of dwellings identified for Birdham parish is too high for the current infrastructure and road network and well beyond the current requirement of 50 dwellings. This figure has been met and/or is in the process of being built. Some mitigation is required given that half the parish lies within the AONB.

The wish of the South Downs National Park for 41 dwellings to be provided within the Chichester plan must be refused. Building within the National Park, given the number of towns and villages within, need to be undertaken to maintain the viability and prosperity of the Park.

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