Click on each image for a closer look. The new lamps Complete with rainbow! (Photo: Clare Blythman) Thank goodness we can close the street one day a year for the Westgate Street Party! One of our rare trees Back
Author: Colin Hicks
Site Admin - Westgate Residents' Association Chichester
Picture Gallery
A pot of gold for Westgate? Fab photo sent in by Clare Blythman: Welcome to the Westgate image gallery. It’s not quite the Pallant House Gallery but there is some art. View here a variety of selections from our collection of old and new Westgate photos. If you want a bigger or full screen view,… Continue reading Picture Gallery
An Investigation into The Georgian Priory: 1-9 Westgate
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 Society (later to become the… Continue reading An Investigation into The Georgian Priory: 1-9 Westgate
7th November AGM: Address by the Steering Committee Chairman
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 turning out to support the… Continue reading 7th November AGM: Address by the Steering Committee Chairman
Mature Trees
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 give us pause for thought.… Continue reading Mature Trees
The Lighting PFI
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 and uncontrolled. Thanks to one… Continue reading The Lighting PFI
7th November AGM: Outgoing Steering Committee Status Report
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 steady flow of accurate information… Continue reading 7th November AGM: Outgoing Steering Committee Status Report
Whitehouse Farm Development: revised traffic calming proposals October 2015
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 surrounding streets. A note by… Continue reading Whitehouse Farm Development: revised traffic calming proposals October 2015
Your Local Councillors
In our fight to combat the worst of the Whitehouse Farm Development, a decent relationship with our local councillors seems a must. We are lucky in that Westgate straddles two wards: Chichester West for households to the North of the street and Chichester South for those on the south side. This gives us twice the… Continue reading Your Local Councillors
Thursday 12th November: your new public open space!
A public meeting has been called by all the Residents’ Associations who will benefit from the opening of a new public space behind Henty Gardens. Come and join in the meeting to help choose a name for the field; share ideas for its management, use and enjoyment; and create a new Friends’ group to support it.… Continue reading Thursday 12th November: your new public open space!