It is planned to direct as many visitors as possible to The Grange car park which currently has 2 hours free parking. That is the closest to Old Town and just over 5 minutes walk to North Street. Car park capacity will continue to be monitored and solutions sought if necessary.

It is impossible to make significant improvements to this without a bypass, which, if at all possible would take decades. However, changes to on-street parking and loading bays will go some way to reduce congestion and could happen in 3-5 years.

North Street is currently so busy that it is often impossible to find a space on the street. There will still be limited parking, but using a car park should become the new habit and is proven to increase time/spend in towns. This will require a change in current behaviour, but once established the benefits should be significant.

Despite the convenience of parking on North Street and West Street, it contributes towards congestion, increases air pollution levels, blocks pavements and shop fronts as well as impacting hugely on the ‘street scene’ and pedestrian/cycling experience.

Midhurst needs to attract visitors as well as locals to support businesses all year round. To do this, it needs to look really attractive and provide an enjoyable experience, in a pleasant environment, where people want to spend time.

Any new planting is planned to be as low maintenance as possible with the plants/trees selected for some drought tolerance. Responsibilities will have to be agreed, but it is hoped in this time of rapid climate change, there will be funding for green schemes which help combat air pollution, mitigate higher temperatures in town and city centres and reduce local flooding from more heavy rainfall events.

There will still be some disabled parking on North Street and disabled bays on Grange Road on the corner of West Street to accommodate this.