{ "version": "2026-10-17.1", "reviewed": "2026-10-16", "sources": { "annual": { "title": "Annual Report 2025\u201326", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/media/42782/Chichester-District-Council-Annual-Report-2025-26/doc/FINAL_Chichester_District_Council_Annual_Report_2025-26.docx?m=1784203330690", "period": "2025/26", "locator": "Leader\u2019s introduction; service achievements; performance tables", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" }, "q1": { "title": "Council performance: first quarter 2026/27", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/media/42967/Performance-Indicator-Updates-Quarter-1-2026-27/doc/Q1_Report.docx?m=1788265579567", "period": "April\u2013June 2026", "locator": "Generated 27 July 2026; LPI 013 and LPI 192", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" }, "programme": { "title": "Projects agreed for 2026", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/article/40561/Key-projects-for-2026-outlined-by-Chichester-District-Council", "period": "21 January 2026", "locator": "Main text", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" }, "regeneration": { "title": "City regeneration strategy approved", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/article/39130/Strategy-which-aims-to-transform-Chichester-city-centre-is-given-the-green-light", "period": "2 October 2024", "locator": "Main text", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" }, "gateway": { "title": "Southern Gateway masterplan", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/article/29385/Southern-Gateway", "period": "Masterplan adopted November 2017", "locator": "Main text", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" }, "stagecoach": { "title": "Bus station and depot relocation negotiations", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/article/39129/Regeneration-plans-for-bus-station-and-depot-move-a-step-forward", "period": "2 October 2024", "locator": "Main text", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" }, "planning": { "title": "Planning guidance and wastewater capacity", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/article/29757/Supplementary-planning-documents-and-policy-guidance", "period": "Guidance current at retrieval; dates vary", "locator": "Housing Delivery Statement; shopping frontage; wastewater headroom", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" }, "pspo": { "title": "City-centre antisocial behaviour order", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/article/39956/Order-is-imposed-to-help-reduce-anti-social-behaviour-in-Chichester-city-centre", "period": "18 June 2025", "locator": "Main text", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" }, "wardens": { "title": "Community wardens", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/article/40655/District-Dispatch-3-March-2026", "period": "3 March 2026", "locator": "Main text", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" }, "corporate": { "title": "Corporate plan and performance", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/corporateplan", "period": "2026\u20132030 plan", "locator": "Main text", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" }, "neighbourhood": { "title": "Neighbourhood planning", "url": "https://www.chichester.gov.uk/article/24695/Neighbourhood-Planning", "period": "Status varies by parish", "locator": "Main text", "checked": "2026-10-16", "publisher": "Chichester District Council" } }, "projects": [ { "id": "southern-gateway", "title": "Southern Gateway and the station", "area": "Station, Southgate and Canal Basin", "stage": "Planning and feasibility", "summary": "A long-running plan to reconnect the station and canal with homes, workplaces and public space. The latest annual report still lists feasibility and options work.", "owner": "District council, county council and landowners", "nextEvidence": "Approved site designs, transport arrangements, funding and contracts.", "successMeasure": "Completed homes and useful public space; safer and easier journeys.", "sources": [ "gateway", "annual", "stagecoach" ], "funding": "No project-specific total verified", "spent": null, "delivery": null, "reviewed": "2026-10-16" }, { "id": "innovation", "title": "Innovation hub", "area": "City; site not confirmed", "stage": "Feasibility", "summary": "The council is testing demand and viability for another business hub.", "owner": "District council and business partners", "nextEvidence": "Published options appraisal and business case.", "successMeasure": "Occupancy, sustainable jobs and business survival after opening.", "sources": [ "programme", "annual" ], "funding": "No project-specific total verified", "spent": null, "delivery": null, "reviewed": "2026-10-16" }, { "id": "white-pavilion", "title": "White Pavilion repairs", "area": "Priory Park", "stage": "Design", "summary": "Architects were appointed to cost three repair options.", "owner": "District council", "nextEvidence": "Chosen option, budget and works timetable.", "successMeasure": "Building reopened and usable by clubs.", "sources": [ "programme" ], "funding": "No project-specific total verified", "spent": null, "delivery": null, "reviewed": "2026-10-16" }, { "id": "brick-pavilion", "title": "Brick Pavilion future", "area": "Priory Park", "stage": "Planning application", "summary": "A community-facing organisation submitted a planning application for the council\u2019s preferred option. This is a different building from the White Pavilion.", "owner": "District council and applicant", "nextEvidence": "Planning decision, lease and delivery agreement.", "successMeasure": "A secure, accessible community use.", "sources": [ "annual" ], "funding": "No project-specific total verified", "spent": null, "delivery": null, "reviewed": "2026-10-16" }, { "id": "oaklands", "title": "Oaklands Park path", "area": "Wellington Road to Oaklands Way", "stage": "Feasibility", "summary": "A proposed walking, cycling and wheeling link. January 2027 was an earliest conditional construction date, not a promise.", "owner": "District and county councils", "nextEvidence": "Feasibility result, access design and works approval.", "successMeasure": "Continuous accessible route and measured use.", "sources": [ "programme", "annual" ], "funding": "No project-specific total verified", "spent": null, "delivery": null, "reviewed": "2026-10-16" }, { "id": "hgv-training", "title": "Heavy vehicle apprenticeships", "area": "Westhampnett depot", "stage": "Programme development", "summary": "Training is being developed with Chichester College Group; first intake anticipated September 2027.", "owner": "Council\u2019s depot service and Chichester College Group", "nextEvidence": "Course recruitment and confirmed facilities.", "successMeasure": "Apprentices starting, completing and entering work.", "sources": [ "programme" ], "funding": "No project-specific total verified", "spent": null, "delivery": null, "reviewed": "2026-10-16" }, { "id": "leisure", "title": "Leisure centres investment", "area": "District\u2019s three leisure centres", "stage": "Contract awarded", "summary": "New operator took over in May 2026. The contract includes an investment commitment; this does not establish that all improvements are built.", "owner": "District council and leisure operator", "nextEvidence": "Site-by-site works, expenditure and access arrangements.", "successMeasure": "Completed facilities, use and affordability.", "sources": [ "annual" ], "funding": "\u00a38 million contract investment commitment", "spent": null, "delivery": null, "reviewed": "2026-10-16" }, { "id": "temporary-homes", "title": "More temporary accommodation", "area": "Chichester district", "stage": "Preparation", "summary": "A former student building was being prepared for 51 temporary accommodation units. Autumn 2026 was the expected opening; opening has not been verified.", "owner": "District council housing service", "nextEvidence": "Confirmed opening, occupancy and suitability checks.", "successMeasure": "Fewer households in nightly-paid placements and suitable stays.", "sources": [ "annual" ], "funding": "No project-specific total verified", "spent": null, "delivery": "51 proposed units; not counted as open", "reviewed": "2026-10-16" }, { "id": "food-waste", "title": "Food-waste collections", "area": "Chichester district", "stage": "Service launched", "summary": "Collections began rolling out in March 2026. The next test is sustained recycling performance.", "owner": "District council waste service", "nextEvidence": "Updated quarterly recycling results.", "successMeasure": "Food waste diverted and fewer missed collections.", "sources": [ "annual", "q1" ], "funding": "No project-specific total verified", "spent": null, "delivery": "Launch reported; annual recycling outcome not yet established", "reviewed": "2026-10-16" }, { "id": "thornham", "title": "Wastewater treatment capacity", "area": "Thornham catchment; not the whole city", "stage": "Funding confirmed", "summary": "The council reports Southern Water funding for expansion, with completion a priority by 2030. New development must be phased with available capacity.", "owner": "Southern Water; district planning authority", "nextEvidence": "Works programme, delivery milestones and operational capacity.", "successMeasure": "Capacity available before connected development is occupied.", "sources": [ "planning" ], "funding": "Funding confirmed; amount not verified", "spent": null, "delivery": null, "reviewed": "2026-10-16" }, { "id": "car-parks", "title": "Northgate and Bosham Lane improvements", "area": "Northgate, Chichester; Bosham village", "stage": "Announced", "summary": "Markings, planting, signs and resurfacing were announced. These are two separate locations.", "owner": "District council", "nextEvidence": "Work orders, dates and completion reports.", "successMeasure": "Usable, accessible spaces and maintained surfaces.", "sources": [ "programme" ], "funding": "No project-specific total verified", "spent": null, "delivery": null, "reviewed": "2026-10-16" } ], "issues": [ { "id": "housing", "title": "Housing pressure reaches beyond house prices", "finding": "Nightly-paid temporary accommodation held 106 households in June 2026. This is one part of temporary accommodation, not all homelessness.", "type": "weakness", "sources": [ "q1" ], "action": "housing", "why": "The district also reported 160 affordable homes enabled in 2025/26 against a target of 167. Supply and immediate housing need require separate measures." }, { "id": "water", "title": "Growth needs working water infrastructure", "finding": "Housing delivery must keep pace with wastewater capacity and protection of the harbour.", "type": "threat", "sources": [ "planning" ], "action": "water", "why": "Capacity, nutrient pollution and water supply are different constraints. Their boundaries differ; a district-wide label can mislead." }, { "id": "safety", "title": "District totals can conceal local changes", "finding": "Police neighbourhood trends differ within Chichester. City-centre activity cannot be inferred from the district average.", "type": "weakness", "sources": [], "action": "safety", "why": "Published police locations are approximate and omit unmapped incidents. Counts do not measure every crime or the risk to an individual." }, { "id": "delivery", "title": "Plans need visible delivery milestones", "finding": "Several regeneration schemes remain in design or feasibility in the reviewed evidence.", "type": "weakness", "sources": [ "annual", "programme" ], "action": "delivery", "why": "A funding announcement does not show money spent or benefits achieved. Missing completion evidence is not proof that nothing happened." }, { "id": "waste", "title": "Recycling needs a new baseline", "finding": "42.3% of household waste was reused, recycled or composted in 2025/26. Food-waste collections began near the end of that year.", "type": "weakness", "sources": [ "annual", "q1" ], "action": "waste", "why": "The first-quarter report still awaited a new recycling figure. It cannot yet establish the full-year effect of the new service." } ], "actions": [ { "id": "housing", "title": "Reduce reliance on nightly-paid accommodation", "owner": "District housing service and housing providers", "short": "Confirm the new temporary units are open, safe and occupied; publish a monthly housing-pressure dashboard.", "medium": "Track affordable homes from permission to completion and identify stalled sites.", "long": "Judge progress by suitable settled housing and repeat homelessness, not announcements.", "tradeoff": "Leased buildings and new homes require money and suitable locations; avoiding nightly costs does not remove support needs.", "measure": "Nightly-paid households, duration of stays and affordable completions.", "sources": [ "annual", "q1" ] }, { "id": "water", "title": "Match new homes with water capacity", "owner": "District planners, Southern Water and environmental regulators", "short": "Publish the applicable catchment and capacity condition for each major site.", "medium": "Track treatment works and developer contributions against occupation milestones.", "long": "Assess actual water quality and reliable capacity alongside homes delivered.", "tradeoff": "Delaying occupation can constrain housing supply; premature growth can worsen infrastructure pressure.", "measure": "Operational capacity, conditions discharged and monitored water quality.", "sources": [ "planning" ] }, { "id": "safety", "title": "Target safety work by neighbourhood", "owner": "Sussex Police and the Community Safety Partnership", "short": "Review neighbourhood category trends alongside resident reports and police priorities.", "medium": "Evaluate targeted prevention and the city-centre order against a baseline.", "long": "Track repeat harm and displacement into nearby streets.", "tradeoff": "More reporting can raise recorded counts even when confidence improves. Enforcement should be assessed with support and prevention.", "measure": "Like-for-like category counts, repeat incidents and resident experience.", "sources": [ "pspo", "wardens" ] }, { "id": "delivery", "title": "Make the regeneration programme easy to follow", "owner": "District council with county council, landowners and delivery partners", "short": "Give each project one owner, current stage and next decision.", "medium": "Publish contracts, spending and changes to scope alongside planned benefits.", "long": "Measure local access, jobs and use after schemes open.", "tradeoff": "Commercial negotiations may limit detail; explain omissions and publish what can be disclosed.", "measure": "Verified milestones, expenditure and realised benefits.", "sources": [ "annual", "corporate" ] }, { "id": "waste", "title": "Show whether food-waste collection is working", "owner": "District waste service", "short": "Publish coverage and missed-collection information with the first complete quarter.", "medium": "Compare recycling and residual waste over equivalent seasons.", "long": "Assess cost per household and sustained waste reduction.", "tradeoff": "Participation and collection tonnage alone do not establish value for money.", "measure": "Recycling share, residual tonnes, missed collections and cost.", "sources": [ "annual", "q1" ] } ], "initiatives": [ { "title": "Chichester Vision and regeneration strategy", "body": "A shared direction for the city centre, with connections, public spaces and economic activity at its heart. The strategy is an official plan; the action suggestions on this site are ours.", "source": "regeneration" }, { "title": "Place identity and a developing Place Board", "body": "The 2025/26 annual report records a new identity toolkit and development of a Place Board in 2026/27. This supports a shared local story; it is not evidence that every partnership project has delivered.", "source": "annual" }, { "title": "Community wardens", "body": "Visible local support, referrals and links with police. Wardens have no enforcement powers. Their work is different from police patrols.", "source": "wardens" }, { "title": "Community Safety Partnership", "body": "Council and police work together on local safety. The city-centre order addresses alcohol-related antisocial behaviour; it is not a blanket ban on drinking.", "source": "pspo" }, { "title": "Local parish plans", "body": "Fishbourne, Tangmere, Bosham, Selsey and the Witterings have distinct planning histories. A designated neighbourhood area is not automatically an adopted neighbourhood plan. Check the council register for the relevant parish.", "source": "neighbourhood" }, { "title": "Community support and grants", "body": "The annual report records more than \u00a3365,000 allocated across 63 community projects in 2025/26. Allocation is not the same as expenditure or an independently measured benefit.", "source": "annual" } ], "assurance": { "sourceReview": "Official pages and original council documents reviewed by an AI agent on 16 October 2026.", "independentReview": "Not yet independently reviewed.", "intendedUse": "Public understanding and scrutiny; not individual risk assessment, investment advice or planning determination.", "refresh": "Police and Census connectors are reproducible. Publication is a checked release, not an unreviewed live stream." }, "corrections": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "field": "wards.deprivation", "change": "Corrected one-or-more Census deprivation dimensions label. Figures unchanged; the previous two-or-more description was incorrect.", "source": "Nomis Census 2021 TS011, categories 2\u20135", "reviewRole": "Agent source-category verification" } ] }