The Neighbourhood Plan team are currently updating our policies and will soon be having a mandatory ‘Call for Sites’ before starting the assessment process of identifying where our allocation can best be built.

This will be based on a professional assessment and public consultation.

Our allocation is 50 dwellings; however, the Chichester Local Plan is far from completed and this number could well change. We have contested this number for many reasons and these are outlined in the last update. Our plan needs to dovetail with Chichester’s so we can only progress as fast as they do.

There are many sites in the parish identified as being potentially ‘developable’ and currently three of these are being actively pursued by the developers.

Each of these have been informed of the above situation and that their sites will be assessed in due course as part of our NP preparation. None of these are in accordance with our ‘made’ Neighbourhood Plan.

Many of you will now have received the unofficial ‘consultation’ from SP Broadway about the site which they insist on, incorrectly, calling ‘land NW of 56 Stane St’, otherwise known as Rohan Stables, which is on the A285 opposite Tinwood Lane.

This only gives a broad outline of what they propose and therefore lacks any real detail that can be used to assess the site or make comparisons with any others that are proposed.

Residents are obviously free to make whatever comments they wish, but at this stage our recommendation is to ignore it and wait until we see the detail of a proper planning application.

At that stage a public consultation will take place.

‘Unofficial’ comments made to SP Broadway at this stage could be used by their barristers, at any subsequent appeal, to our detriment.

We will, ultimately, need to choose a site otherwise the choice will be made for us.

Please follow progress on our website and future updates.

David Leah

Chair of Boxgrove Neighbourhood Plan Team

7 July 2023