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The whole A27 bypass closes 8pm to 6am from Monday 14 to Thursday 17 September, and Stockbridge Road shuts completely for seven weeks from 10 October.
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Business
Star and Garter East Dean: £96,690 Owed, HMRC Top Creditor
The statement of affairs filed at Companies House lists £96,690 owed by the East Dean pub company. HMRC takes £58,025 of it, named suppliers £38,665.
Business
The Beach Bracklesham: £450,270 Deficit, £151,644 PAYE Owed
The statement of affairs for Billy's on the Beach Limited shows a £450,270 deficiency and £151,644 of PAYE owed to HMRC. The Bracklesham venue is still trading.
St Richard's Hospital
St Richard's Hospital: 850 Solar Panels Approved
850 solar panels approved for seven St Richard's Hospital roofs on 21 August. Nobody objected, and the whole lot arrives in one 6am Saturday delivery.
Food hygiene
Chichester Food Hygiene: 1,233 of 1,304 Rate 5
Chichester district beats Arun by eleven points on top hygiene ratings. But every rating published here in the last 30 days was a 5, and that is not luck.
Southbourne
Why Is My Child Waking So Often at Night? A Gentle Guide
Southbourne sleep consultant Inese Carter on why frequent waking is rarely a fault to fix, what a child's day does to their night, and when to seek help.
Chichester Harbour
Chichester Sewage Works Gets £25m to Add 57% Capacity
Southern Water has started a £25m upgrade at Apuldram, the works the council says is already at environmental capacity. It is not due to finish until spring 2029.
Local Info
Chichester Bin Days: Collections Run on 31 August
Chichester District collects on every bank holiday but Christmas, in its own policy. Garden waste is £78 a year, bulky waste £36, and Midhurst tip shuts Tue and Wed.
Local Info
Parking in Chichester: Sundays and Bank Holidays Are Paid
Chichester's car parks charge on Sundays, 10am to 5pm, and at full weekday rates on bank holidays. Long stay is £2.30 for two hours. Two are free all day.
Local Info
Chichester Council Tax Bands 2026-27: Band D £2,492.15
Band A to H charges for every one of the 67 Chichester district parishes. Band D in the city is £2,492.15 after the city council put its own precept up 57.42%.
Selsey
Selsey Seawall Works: Beach Ramp Shut for 12 Weeks
Urgent work on the West Beach seawall shuts the beach access ramp for about 12 weeks. The council's own pages give three different start dates.
Chichester
Chichester claimant count: one ward 6%, another 1.3%
Chichester Central has the 4th highest claimant rate of West Sussex's 133 wards at 6.0%. Loxwood, at the district's northern edge, is on 1.3%.
Chichester
Chichester house prices at their lowest since Feb 2024
The district average fell £9,921 in a year to £429,978, the 25th steepest drop of 295 English districts. Only 62 fell at all, and Horsham is now dearer.
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.
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