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…
This is the full text of the address made to the November AGM by the Chairman of the outgoing Steering Committee, who took it upon themselves – following general endorsement by residents at the 3rd October Coffee Morning – to revive the Westgate Residents’ Association. First welcome, and thank you all for Read more…
A planning application has been made by the County Council to re-pollard the last remaining mature Horse Chestnut on the corner of Parklands Road and Westgate. This is no more than good maintenance, but the description in the application that this tree is now ‘over-mature’ and ‘in decline’ should perhaps 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…
The following is the status report of the outgoing Steering Committee as delivered by the Secretary to the Westgate Residents’ Association AGM on the 7th November 2015 1. THE WEBSITE AND MAILING LIST A Residents’ Association exists to represent the interests of all households. It hopes to do that by providing a Read more…
As readers will know from previous posts – and the meeting in July if you were there – Miller Homes and Linden Homes, the developers of the Whitehouse Farm site, commissioned traffic consultants Vectos to come up with proposals for traffic management and calming on the Whitehouse Farm development site and the Read more…