Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission

Object

Representation ID: 5915

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

8.19 Need to compare those costs Highway costs with costs of active travel and public transport provision that will deliver the objectives of improved access and reduced congestion.

Facilitating the level of development set out with the Plan will require both investment in active travel / public transport and specific targeted improvements to the A27 Chichester Bypass. The funding mechanisms for each of these will be different, although the majority will need to come from developer contributions.

Object

Representation ID: 5916

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

8.20 Financial contribution from housing development will go much further if invested in proper active travel infrastructure, with active travel and public transport priority designed into existing roads, and integral to new developments

Facilitating the level of development set out with the Plan will require both investment in active travel / public transport and specific targeted improvements to the A27 Chichester Bypass.

Object

Representation ID: 5917

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

8.21 and 8.22 Investing money this way will increase traffic congestion in Chichester and other existing communities in the region. If serious about improving access and reducing traffic congestion, this money will achieve far better outcomes and actually achieve those objectives if invested in active travel infrastructure including to railway stations that must be continuous, direct, safe, attractive and comfortable

Policy T1 states that investment will be used to fund local sustainable travel options. This includes integrated bus and train networks, improved pedestrian, and cycle networks. Both CIL and s106 contributions, as well as other funding where available, will be used to fund these measures and this will not be adversely impacted by the need to secure developer contributions specifically for the strategic highway improvements identified

Object

Representation ID: 5918

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

1a Strongly support, it is critical that all development is designed “to avoid and/or reduce the need to travel by car and incorporate measures…… that decrease traffic speeds and flows.
1b Strongly support,
1c This needs to be stronger than promoting active travel. Active travel infrastructure must not just be incorporated, but must be the core of the access within the development and between the development and places people need to access, especially bus stops and railway stations. The active travel routes must be direct, and we must understand by coherent, that these must be continuous, because as soon as an active travel route is interrupted by a road people, especially parents consider them not safe which increases car use. The design must be for the motor vehicle to give way before crossing the active travel route not the other way around.
1d Strongly support
1e Must be strengthened to say “Provide safe access to the highway for all users with Hierarchy of Road User built into the design, retrospectively if necessary”
1f Focus must be based on space for Active travel, into which vehicles require space to manoeuvre without compromising safety of people in the street walking, cycling or children playing.
Support the landscaping parts of 1f
1g Policy T4 and West Sussex County Council Guidance needs changing to facilitate modal shift to active travel and public transport, people should pay the economic price for parking space.
1h Support
1i Support
2.1 Is there no 2.1?
2.2 Support
3 Support
3. Support

i) The point is noted but clause 1c) already goes as far as possible to ensure that safe and coherent active travel routes are included within all relevant developments. Local Plan policies must work within the context of other local and national transport planning policies which govern the detailed design frameworks and priorities for each mode of travel operating across the plan area.
ii) as above.
iii) The objective of the comment is achieved through the current wording of clause 1f). Again, the relevant space and detailed design standards for vehicular modes of travel is set out within other policy documents and it is not open to the Local Plan to alter these.
iv) Modal shift to active travel and public transport is a key component of the Local Plan transport strategy

Object

Representation ID: 5919

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

8.24-8.27 is supported, however is undermined by the traffic generating policies that need amending as outlined in other representations.

As detailed in the LCWIP, it will be reviewed in response to new funding/delivery opportunities/after 5 years. The Local Plan transport policies aim to support the modal shift away from the motor car. Policy T3 requires development proposals to prioritise walking and cycling and promote sustainable transport in the first paragraph, whilst criterion 1 provides for connected cycling and walking routes ensuring integration with the wider networks

Object

Representation ID: 5920

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Support policy T3 but it needs to be strengthened with additional clause

As detailed in the LCWIP, it will be reviewed in response to new funding/delivery opportunities/after 5 years. The Local Plan transport policies aim to support the modal shift away from the motor car. Policy T3 requires development proposals to prioritise walking and cycling and promote sustainable transport in the first paragraph, whilst criterion 1 provides for connected cycling and walking routes ensuring integration with the wider networks

Object

Representation ID: 5921

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Add “motor vehicle parking spaces on public roads and in public parking areas will be charged at the economic price for parking spaces.”

This policy is concerned with ensuring that parking provision is provided with development proposals in accordance with the Parking Standards published by West Sussex County Council

Object

Representation ID: 5922

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The walk from Chichester station to the city centre is not continuous as it is interrupted by a signalised crossing of the A286 and walking and cycling to and from many other parts of the city the routes are not continuous.

The top priority must be to make the walking route between the station and city centre continuous so that people walking do not have to wait at the signalised crossing, but can walk without interruption to the city centre, motor vehicles

Chichester City Centre is congested with cars and land taken for cars to drive and parking. If most parking were moved outside the city walls and south of the railway line this will reduce city centre traffic and congestion enabling either a reduction of lanes or reallocation to bus lanes on the Southwestern section of the ring road and facilitate release of city centre land for more people-oriented priorities and encourage modal shift towards sustainable modes.

Comment noted. Bullet points 9 and 10 of the policy cover supporting public transport

Object

Representation ID: 5923

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Support, but strengthen the improved access to the city and sustainable modes of travel by revising the bullet point.
• “Support and promote improved access to the city by active travel and public transport, especially providing continuous direct walking routes between the railway station and all areas of the city centre, updating the transport strategy as necessary.”

There should be another bullet point about reducing car use in the city centre
• “Move car parking spaces from city centre locations to locations further out for people to walk into the city centre, with only disabled and expensive premium parking within the city walls.”

Comments noted. Bullet points 9 and 10 of the policy cover supporting public transport.

Object

Representation ID: 5924

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: GoVia Thameslink Railway

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Chichester City is quite compact with the whole city within easy cycling distance, most walking distance
7. and 8. Need changing
7. “Provide safe and suitable access points for all users and facilitate the requisite contributions for active travel infrastructure improvements and public transport”
8. “Ensure all new housing is linked with the city centre and railway station by continuous, direct, safe, attractive, comfortable walking and cycling routes”

Comment noted. It is considered the criterion as drafted and the cross reference to Policies T1 and T2, as well as Policy P4, which are not solely concerned with ‘highway’ improvements but transport infrastructure more widely, including sustainable modes of travel provides an appropriate approach and level of detail.