Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission

I support the objective, but am concerned that without establishing achievable improvements to the A27 and ensuring the New Climate change map is sound it would be premature to propose to centre development in relatively small settlements along the West/east corridor. This could result in more congestion as Chichester will be the core settlement, without delivering the necessary infrastructure improvements. .

The spatial strategy needs to be placed on hold until the above is achieved.

The spatial strategy is premature as there are on-going talks regarding the upgrading of the A27 through developer contributions and no opportunity has been given to developers and local experts to test the recently published climate change flood risk map.

Until this has been done a strategic layout which best reflects the Council's objectives cannot be decided upon.
To achieve a more sustainable district more reliance should be placed on East Wittering and Selsey to may them more sustainable and less reliant on Chichester. This would reduce traffic along the A27. Enlarging small settlements along the West/east corridor will place more pressure on the A27 and Chichester.

The Draft plan is premature and so should be held until the A27 improvements are agreed and the climate change flood risk assessment has been scrutinised.

The The strategic housing locations all place a huge reliance on Chichester and the A27 ring road. The Council should wait until they know of funding can be raised for various improvements to the A27 ring road and whether the new climate Change flood risk map is sound. Then an informed assessment can be made regarding the more sustainable locations for development. In particular The Wittering's have the potential to be made more sustainable and less reliant on Chichester.

These allocations should be removed and more reliance should be placed on settlement hubs outside Chichester.

These settlements are very small and the proposed allocations will simply place more reliance on car use and congestion along the A27

The spatial strategy should be put on hold until the potential for upgrading the A27 Stockbridge roundabout from developer contributions has been decided and the flood risk maps have been subject to public comment.
At that stage the most sustainable options for the District can be established.

The Manhood Peninsular has not been explored sufficiently regarding its development potential.
Recent talks about funding the A27 Stockbridge roundabout from development are on-going and the background papers and models relating to the recent Climate change flood risk maps have not been made available to the public for scrutinising and testing.

East Wittering should be treated like other settlement hubs and development should be focused there.
East Wittering is a large settlement and with correctly planners infrastructure could be made less reliant on Chichester and the A27.

The potential of the settlement is unknown until the recently published climate change flood risk map models are assessed/tested.

The policy states that settlements should develop according to the settlement hierarchy. East Wittering is a settlement hub and so should be the focus of more development. However, the policy seeks to restrict development in the settlement.

The constraints of the settlements should be reassessed objectively, bearing in mind with more development East Wittering could be made one of the most sustainable settlements in the district, with less reliance on Chichester and the A27.

Until the recent climate change flood risk maps are checked for accuracy it is disputed that East Wittering has more constraints than other settlements.

I support the objective, but am concerned that without establishing achievable improvements to the A27 and ensuring the New Climate change map is sound it would be premature to propose to centre development in relatively small settlements along the West/east corridor. This could result in more congestion as Chichester will be the core settlement, without delivering the necessary infrastructure improvements. .