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Chichester District Council has called for understanding from the public over the latest delay to its Local Plan Review, which is now not scheduled to be adopted until 2023.

The plan, which lays out the framework for future development in the area, was due to be reviewed and adopted in July 2020 but has been delayed three times.

During a meeting of the full council on Friday (March 12), members gave the nod to the new timetable while also agreeing to ‘knock heads together’ to get things done.

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There have been two main issues delaying the review – the lack of sufficient waste water infrastructure to meet the needs of thousands of new homes imposed on the district by the government, and whether local roads, especially the A27, could cope with the traffic.

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