Chichester - Notice of Scoping Consultation and Engagement Strategy

Chichester Local Plan 2045
Notice of Scoping Consultation and Engagement Strategy
Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2026 - Regulation 20

Subject matter and area covered
Chichester District Council is getting ready to prepare a new local plan. We would like your views on the issues a new local plan should cover, and on how you would like to be engaged in the plan making process. The plan will cover the parts of Chichester District outside of the South Downs National Park.
Where and when to view the consultation:
The Scoping Consultation and Engagement Strategy will be available for seven weeks from 7 August 2026 to 25 September 2026:
a. on the council’s website at:

https://www.chichester.gov.uk/localplanconsultation

b. Chichester District Council Offices
East Pallant House, 1 East Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TY
(09:00 – 16:00 Mon- Fri)
c. Chichester, Selsey, Petworth, Midhurst and Southbourne libraries
Opening times and addresses for the libraries can be found at:

http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/find_a_library.aspx

d. d. The South Downs Centre in Midhurst.
Opening times and the address for the South Downs Centre can be found at:

https://www.southdowns.gov.uk/contact/

How to comment:
The consultation documents pose a series of specific questions to help us collate and consider your views.
You can respond to the consultation questions using the council’s online consultation portal

https://www.chichester.gov.uk/localplanconsultation

Comments can also be made by:
Email to:

planningpolicy@chichester.gov.uk

Post to: Planning Policy Team, Chichester District Council, East Pallant House, 1 East Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TY
Responses must be received by 5pm on 25 September 2026.
All personal data held is processed in accordance with the Planning Policy privacy notice:

https://www.chichester.gov.uk/dataprotectionandfreedomofinformation

Requests for future communication:
In line with Regulation 20 (5) (d) of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2026 responses to this consultation may be accompanied by a request to be notified at a specific address when one or more of the plan-making steps listed below occurs. In practice, once you have submitted a representation, we will contact you about these stages as a matter of course unless you tell us you no longer wish to receive such communications – as set out in the privacy notice.
(i)the making available of proposed local plan content and evidence under regulation 23(1)(b) (consultation on proposed local plan content and evidence);
(ii)the publication of observations or advice under section 15CA(5) of the Act;
(iii)the making available of the proposed local plan submission documents under regulation 27(1)(b) (consultation on the proposed local plan);
(iv)the submission of the proposed local plan to the Secretary of State for independent examination under section 15D(1) of the Act;
(v)the making available of the matters specified in regulation 35(2) in accordance with regulation 35(1)(a) (independent examination: local plans);
(vi)a decision of the examiner under section 15D(7) of the Act that the examination under that section is to be paused under section 15DA of the Act for further work to be carried out;
(vii)the publication under section 15DA(7) of the Act of the document and any evidence which is sent to the examiner under section 15DA(6);
(viii)the publication of the recommendations and reasons of the examiner received under section 15D or section 15DA of the Act, in accordance with section 15D(13) or section 15DA(10);
(ix)the adoption or approval of the local plan under Part 2 of the Act.