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Between the South Downs and the sea there is a strip of West Sussex with a cathedral city at one end of it and a seaside town at the other. Chichester has the Roman street plan, the cathedral and the theatre. Bognor Regis, seven miles east, is a different sort of place entirely. Arundel sits inland under its castle, and the Manhood peninsula runs south to Selsey and the Witterings with the harbour on one side.

Chichester Live covers all of it. Planning here is unusually complicated, because the northern part of the district falls inside the South Downs National Park, where the park authority decides applications rather than the council, and Chichester and Arundel are in different districts again. We name the responsible body every time and link to its own record.

Straight to it

  • House prices: the district average is £436,312 and falling, with sold-price medians for eighteen places from Selsey to Loxwood.
  • Trains to London: 1 hour 36 minutes to Victoria, twice an hour, and £6,168 a year for a season ticket.
  • Roadworks and travel: what is shut on the A27, and what every council car park charges.
  • Planning news: the Local Plan 2045 scoping consultation is open until 25 September.
  • Things to do: a free museum, a £7 cathedral and what the beach car park costs.

Every fact carries a link to the document behind it.