High hopes Chichester can fight ‘unsustainable’ housing development in the district

The Chichester Harbour Trust has said it welcomed the announcement by Chichester District Council last week that a five-year land supply for the district has now been secured.

In in statement it said it hoped the news ‘will help protect this vulnerable area from the unprecedented levels of speculative planning applications that we have witnessed in the past year’.

As previously reporter by The Observer there have been a number of delays to the council’s local plan process, the development blueprint for the area, and developers have recently lodged numerous ‘speculative’ applications in places such as Chidham & Hambrook and East Wittering.