City Plan Initial Consultation
Your thoughts on City Plan for 2024-2029 have been received and analysed.
This is what you told us and what we will be doing about it.
What we asked:
We asked over 13,000 households across the City to read the Draft City Council Plan and let us know what they thought about our priorities and proposals for the next five years.
This is a summary of what you told us and what we will do to deliver on your priorities.
What you told us:
We asked
Do you agree with the four key priorities that the City Council have identified for the next five years?
You said
You agreed that our priorities were correct and ranked them in importance as follows:
1. Improve the environment
2. Create a vibrant, thriving and active community
3. Fill the gaps in the city’s infrastructure
4. Preserve the city’s heritage
Your top ten priorities were as follows (in order from most important to least):
1. Keep our properties and spaces in good order
2. Contribute to city centre pavement improvements
3. Provide face to face support for residents in crisis
4. Provide streetlights on footpaths and twittens
5. Install additional street lighting
6. Install and maintain benches, bike racks, finger posts etc.
7. Represents residents on planning applications
8. Contribute to community wardens, city ambassadors etc.
9. Reduce our carbon footprint to reach net zero by 2030
10. Provide grant funding to local voluntary sector groups
Your bottom five priorities were as follows (lowest at the bottom):
1. Maintain the traditions of the Mayoralty and City Council
2. Deploy an additional Speed Indicator Device
3. Campaign for 20mph limits on all major approach roads
4. Twinning ties with Chartres, Ravenna, Valletta and Speyer
5. Enclose the Council House portico
What you also told us:
Many of you took the opportunity to share your concerns about a number of other issues including:
1. The scale of new development
2. The lack of affordable housing
3. Problems with traffic and road infrastructure
4. The need for more cycle paths and sustainable travel routes
5. Difficulties accessing healthcare services and NHS dentistry
The need for more cycle paths and sustainable travel routes; Difficulties accessing healthcare services and NHS dentistry.
As the Parish Council for the City of Chichester it is not within the legal scope of our powers to directly deliver solutions to these issues.
We will, however, work hard to advocate for you with the District and County Councils and national organisations such as Highways England and the National Health Service to highlight these problems and to lobby for better services and facilities for our City.
We will be delivering a flyer summarising the results to all homes in Chichester shortly.
You can also download a PDF copy of the results summary flyer here:
A tabulated summary of the responses can be seen here (PDF download):
A full report on the results of the consultation was presented to a Special Meeting of the City Council on 20 March 2024.
This report can be seen here (PDF download): Chichester City Council – Council Plan – Priorities for 2024 and 2025