Public Benefits

Our sensitive and well researched proposals for the restoration of the King Edward VII estate will bring forward provide the following benefits to the local community:

• Securing the future of a nationally important collection of heritage assets, which English Heritage recognise as having ‘a good claim to be seen as one of the pivotal sites of its time and place’ by repairing and restoring them and putting them back into beneficial use
  
• Preserving and enhancing a highly important piece of local social history for the benefit of current and future generations
  
• The long term protection and enhancement of the natural habitats within the extensive site and the ecological benefits that will flow as a result
  
• Open weekends for general public to view the restored gardens and the historic measured walks, which amount to 6 km of woodland and heathland walks through this historic estate within the South Downs National Park
  
• Immediate and on-going local employment – through construction activities for the next 10 years, and on-going landscape and building maintenance and the employees servicing assisted care facilities
  
• Well over £120 million investment in the local area to undertake the restoration and development
  
• Financial benefits to the local economy through increased business and customers
  
• The Central Government’s New Homes Bonus is estimated at just under £5 million over the first 6 years of which £4 million could be spent by Chichester District Council to boost frontline services or reduce the council tax for local residents.  A further £994,700 would also go to West Sussex County Council to be spent on pubic services such as highway maintenance, education and waste disposal.