Re-planting of the Westgate Planters

The general state of the public realm in Chichester has suffered from a lack of investment in recent years and the City Council has begun work in the City Centre and with communities to renovate and maintain the various installations on our streets. Citizens will have noticed recent improvements to the City’s roundabouts and benches… Continue reading Re-planting of the Westgate Planters

Hidden Westgate Histories: The Westgate Lavant

An extract from Loader's 1812 town plan showing Westgate.

Most residents are familiar with our winterbourne, the River Lavant. Winterbourne because it is a seasonal stream that comes down from the Downs, filtered out of the chalk after the Winter rains. Most of us are familiar with its current course on the West side: emerging from the City from underneath the Fountain public house… Continue reading Hidden Westgate Histories: The Westgate Lavant

The Chichester Road Space Audit, WSCC 2016

At the beginning of 2016, The County Council commissioned an audit of the use of the roads in Chichester with a view to improving traffic conditions and parking options. You can read it from the WGRA website here.   We have written to Marcus Davey, the WSCC Officer concerned, as part of the recent consultation,… Continue reading The Chichester Road Space Audit, WSCC 2016

The Westgate Cycle Path 3

How the Spaniards do it

Retired traffic consultant Paul Wreyford has been a key expert assisting the four RAs concerned with the impacts of the Whitehouse Farm development. He has over forty years of detailed highway and transport design and construction experience, and assessing developers highway designs has been a major part of this. Following the approval of the outline… Continue reading The Westgate Cycle Path 3

The Brewery Field: Time to Volunteer! Nov 2016

After a long community battle against developers, in 2015 the West Sussex County Council agreed to transfer part of the Central School playing field to the City Council as a green space for community use. Following a general meeting in the November and the official opening in June 2016, the Friends of the Brewery Field… Continue reading The Brewery Field: Time to Volunteer! Nov 2016

The Westgate Cycle Path 2

Re-design Westgate to Accommodate Everyone’s Needs Safely? The City Council’s Cycle Infrastructure Design Workshop met on 1st October 2016 in St Paul’s Church. Unfortunately this clashed with our monthly Coffee Morning but several residents were able to attend, for which many thanks. By all accounts, some interesting and competent contributors had been brought in from outside… Continue reading The Westgate Cycle Path 2

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