Have your say on citywide parking control scheme

Proposals to tackle growing pressure on on-street parking in Chichester will be put forward for public consultation from Friday (March 1).

West Sussex County Council will be asking for feedback on the city-wide parking management plan for all of March.

Response forms and details of the proposals will be available online at www.westsussex.gov.uk/ chiparkingplan, as well as at four drop-in exhibitions.

It follows an initial consultation in 2017 on The Chichester Road Space Audit with draft suggestions including commuter parking in residential streets.

Following feedback from that first consultation, the county council agreed to push ahead with designs for a citywide parking management scheme.

Roger Elkins, cabinet member for highways and infrastructure, said: “With new housing, plus business and retail expansion in the Chichester area, parking problems will only intensify.

“They could have an increasing impact in areas that currently have no parking restrictions, which is why we want to be proactive and plan now, rather than wait and be forced to react when it’s too late.

We also want to take a holistic, city-wide approach to parking, and not simply move a problem from one area and create a new one elsewhere.”

Council officers will be on hand to answer questions about the proposals at four dro-in exhibition sessions.

Three of these exhibitions will be at the Old Court Room in the Council House in Chichester’s North Street from 10am to 4pm on Friday March 1, Saturday March 2 and Wednesday March 20, with the fourth drop-in at the Swanfield Community Centre from 2pm to 8pm on Monday March 25.

The deadline for responses is Sunday March 31.

The feedback will then be analysed and a report made to the South Chichester County Local Committee in June.