Representations to Chichester District Council Local Plan Review Long Term Growth Requirements A Vision for Broadbridge February 2019 Bosham, at the western end of the High Street A VISION FOR BROADBRIDGE Pg. 2 CONTENTS THE TEAM Developer and Promoter 1. The Vision 2. A History of Broadbridge and Bosham 3. The Heaver Family legacy 4. Site Context 5. Landscape and Visual Assessment Development Consultant and Masterplanners 6. Ecology 7. Utilities, Ground Conditions and Drainage 8. Planning Context 9. Highways, Access & Transport 10. Placemaking Planning Consultant Transport Consultant 11. Masterplan Vision 12. Precedents 13. Summary and Conclusion Drainage & Services Landscape, Ecology & Arboriculture APPENDICES APX01 Location Plan APX02 Landscape and Visual Appraisal APX03 Transport Technical Note Legal APX04 Planning Representations Text APX05 Engineering Technical Note APX06 Ecology Technical Note APX07 Agricultural Land Technical Note APX08 Arboriculture Technical Note Pg. 3 A VISION FOR BROADBRIDGE A VISION FOR BROADBRIDGE Pg. 4 1| THE VISION Broadbridge – A New Village Our Vision for Broadbridge • A Landscape-led Approach – Strong Settlement and enduring landscaping is managed Set across 159 hectares, our Vision considers through our Design Code, which facilitates In response to Chichester District Council’s the delivery of up to 3,000 homes inclusive of engagement with public open spaces consultation on the Local Plan Review 2016- affordable and specialist housing, in addition without compromising or intruding on 2035: “Preferred Approach and Longer Term to local centres and mixed use development. neighbouring countryside; Growth Requirements”, Heaver Homes Ltd Our masterplan also proposes necessary (on behalf of the Heaver Family) has sought to infrastructure and services that meet the • Improving Infrastructure – Given the scale of present a vision for Broadbridge, Bosham, a new requirements of residents old and new, create the proposed development, the settlement and distinguished community with an individual a balanced community with overdue local of Broadbridge will benefit from the critical sense of place. schooling and employment space, village centre mass required to deliver key infrastructure and green spaces. In a similar vein, our design without over reliance on existing utilities and For over 200 years the Heavers have lived in incorporates new junctions to the A27 and a further impeding design quality (notably foul Bosham, continuing a rich legacy that begins radial neighbourhood network that interfaces and surface water drainage, which already with Broadbridge Farm and local enterprises with key roads to major employment hubs such requires substantial improvement); that has consistently supported its common life. as Portsmouth, Southampton, Chichester and Worthing. • Local Centre – Providing for local needs, Chichester Dairies, Heaver brick making and the including food store, GP facilities and access family’s aggregates industry centred in West to high street facilities; Sussex have all left their unique impression upon Building on principles of sustainable planning, the collective history of the region; a tradition, Broadbridge will be a village of diversity and • Green Spaces – Open green spaces and and an obligation, that the Heaver Family practical placemaking. The opportunities we’ve managed play spaces create a holistic wish to pursue for the benefit of forthcoming identified are categorised below: community in line with many “Garden City generations. principles” that have reconciled rural setting • Meeting Future Housing Requirements with community regeneration; As a continuation of the Heaver’s heritage, the – The Local Plan Review considers proposal to redevelop land north of Bosham the ‘concept of a new settlement to • Employment Space – The provision of reflects sustainable growth that is carefully accommodate potential longer term growth new employment spaces allows for job considered. The selection of area, “Broadbridge” needs.’ Our Vision considers the delivery creation “at home”, in kind with the Heavers’ – that being land bordered by the A27 (to the of up to 3,000 homes with provisions for history and ancestral legacy in Bosham and north) and the west coastalway railway line affordable housing (30%); Chichester; (to the south) – is well connected by road • Strategic Connectivity – Our Masterplan • Providing New Schools – Broadbridge will and by train, which in turn establish strictly proposes an achievable junction that benefit from new local schools across both defined boundaries. Ecological impacts, and connects the site with the A27, and primary and secondary tiers, reducing long any associated encroachment on Chichester enhances available route choices through overdue independence on neighbouring Harbour’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty the Bosham network. The site’s multiple towns and cities. (AONB), is effectively checked by its separation access points adds to its connectivity from neighbouring settlements. Benefiting in a way that limits excessive strain on from its geographical distinctiveness and its existing roads and diverts flows away from advantageous landscape, we present a real the village centre, as does the essential opportunity, we present a real opportunity to proximity to the local train station; meet the Council’s future housing need with the provision of appropriate infrastructure. Pg. 5 A VISION FOR BROADBRIDGE 2| HISTORY OF BROADBRIDGE AND BOSHAM Early-History of Broadbridge and crowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Despite corpus of archaeologists has later observed, Bosham (43-1087) its nominal political influence at the time, architectural development (in the form of flint Bosham is in fact mentioned by name in the work and stone rubble walls) to Bosham Church Bosham was a central seat of Roman client Bayeux Tapestry, referring to the meeting of suggests the incremental growth of Bosham governance across Britannia and a nexus of Harold II and Edward the Confessor (1003-1066). as a religious terminus particularly under the considerable wealth that was in no small part By 1086, the Domesday Book lists Bosham lasting patrimony of Osbern (later the Chapelry supported by a long history of farming in as one of the wealthiest manors in England of Bosham itself). Despite fragmentary and Broadbridge. under the possession of Osbern (1032-1103), inherently piecemeal evidence that survives of a Norman churchman who was once King the Western division of Sussex, chronicler James While Bosanham (Bosham) and the broader Edward’s royal chaplain before assuming the Dallaway writes that William the Conqueror district, or ‘civitas’, of Regni and Broadbridge position of steward for King William I (1028- later bestowed the land unto ‘William Fitz- enjoyed relative prosperity against the 1087) during his reign. Aucher’, then encompassing 4,000 acres that backdrop of Roman occupation, the departure included several hamlets including Bradbridge, of magistrates and tacit acceptance of British Bosham from the Middle Ages to the Hook, Creed and Fishbourne. As to the descent self-government that characterized Late of the manor from that time, Henry II (1133- Antiquity foreshadowed its repatriation. By Present (1100-2018) 1189) gave it to ‘John Mareschal’ (who opposed the close of the fifth century and the capture While little is known of Bosham and Thomas Becket and abated King Henry’s quest of the region by King of the Southern Saxons Broadbridge’s history during the Middle for less clerical independence and homage to Ælle, the chief city of Cissa (Chichester) and its Ages, Herbert of Bosham (active between Rome) and from him it passed to Roger Bigod surrounding cluster of hamlets and villages were 1162 and 1189), friend and biographer of (1150-1221), 2nd Earl of Norfolk and Edward the predominantly ecclesiastical hubs of worship. Archbishop and Saint Thomas Becket (1119- First’s ‘Chief Justiciar’, equivalent to a modern During the Middle Ages a cathedral was founded 1170), was presumably born or at the very Prime Minister. Throughout this period of in 681 at Selsey, and while the prominent bishop consistent and absolutist monarchy Bosham was least a resident of the village. As a growing View of Bosham Church of the Holy Trinity across Bosham Lake and Saint Wilfrid (633-709) visited Bosham, the port on the south coast where most people Broadbridge, Tangmere and other neighbouring embarked for the Continent, a statement which monasteries during pilgrimage to convert South held true even before the Conquest. Saxons there was already a small, collegiate Celtic monastery present, a legacy that was After a period of stable retention of the estate built upon even after the Norman Conquest as by heirship, the full quantum of the Manor was the seat of the bishopric was moved to Cicestre partitioned and allotted to various barons in (Chichester) in 1075. Today, Bosham can claim the late-15th century. Perhaps due to lack of to be the most ancient site in Sussex with a primary sources, the descendants of the Earls continuous tradition of Christian worship. of Berkeley are said to have held the divided estate until 1810 when the lineage broke and Aside from the relationships with the prominent primogeniture could not be fulfilled. Today, a Anglican clergy, Bosham and its immediate reduced Manor of Bosham remains under the locality have strong associations with Alfred tenure of the Earl of Iveagh Edward Guinness the Great (847-899), King of Wessex and later (1847-1927), founder of the brewer