For those of you interested in learning about individual properties on Westgate, last April we began to post details of the buildings at the conservation end of the Westgate which can be found from various sources. In these articles you can find a list of the properties protected by Historic England listing, details of the renumbering of the Read more…
For those of you interested in learning about individual properties on Westgate, last April we began to post details of the buildings at the conservation end of the Westgate which can be found from various sources. In these articles you can find a list of the properties protected by Historic England listing, details of the renumbering of the Read more…
Originally posted on 12 March 2016, updated on 13 June 2016. If you would like to help us keep this list up-to-date then do write in with any changes you have noticed, or join Brian Hopkins, our tree warden, on the 25th June Westgate tree walk. All tree photos are by the author unless Read more…
The streets of the City are key to its vitality; they support movement through and within the built up area but also provide the majority of our public realm and public spaces, shaping the very character and feel of the city itself. In January 2016 West Sussex County Council, working in partnership with Chichester District Council, convened two stakeholder workshops in quick succession as part of a study into how we can make the best use of our streets. (more…)
Some controversy rages about what Chichester’s West Gate actually looked like. It was our view initially that this was the gate itself, taken from an 18th century watercolour, but this is disputed by the team at the West Sussex county archives who, in spite of the title at the bottom, Read more…
We are grateful to Paula Chatfield of Parklands RA for drawing everyone’s attention to the planning application (see 15/04096/TCA below) that has been made to fell the remaining “over-mature” horse chestnut tree on Westgate at the end of Parklands Road due to infestation by honey fungus. It is very likely that it Read more…
This post forms part of an occasional series of contributions from guest authors. This building history by Dr Richard Brownfield was first published in the Chichester Society Newsletter and is here reproduced by permission. Georgian Priory is an entirely spurious name which was created in 1988 when the Abbey Building Read more…
The WSCC street lighting PFI, numbered CRM 18203 and delivered by SSE, has been causing a lot of grief for some time now. Poor and incomplete delivery, unnecessary disruption, wrong colour paint, temporary tops, brackets on listed buildings etc. The rollout of this programme seems to have been very chaotic Read more…