LETTER: Vision should be whole district

As reported in the Observer of the 22nd December, Chichester District Council leader, Tony Dignum, encouraged his council to vote in favour of the southern option2 A27 bypass route, despite admitting he had a personal reason for doing so.

In his own words he stated that he had given all the assistance he could to ‘the mounting campaign’(?) against any northern bypass which, were it to succeed, would pass 250 metres from his own house.

He says he was entitled to an opinion as any other person would have been. Of course, he was. But, shouldn’t his first consideration, as leader, have been what was best for the entire district’s future transport well being? He would make a very good ‘not in my back yard’ (West Broyle Drive) spokesman but does he have the vision to guide the city of Chichester’s needs for the next 20 or 30 years?