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Dogs stay banned from Priory Park and Bishop's Palace Gardens to 2029, and every fenced play area joins the list from 16 October. What changes, and the fines.
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Council
Oaklands Park Path Funded: £374,000 Route Due Spring 2027
An all-weather path across Oaklands Park to Oaklands Way and Broyle Road has its money, and tenders are next. It will not be lit: why, and what it costs.
Theatre
The Archers Live at 75 in Chichester: 31 Oct, From £15
The Archers: Live at 75 plays Chichester Festival Theatre on Saturday 31 October at 7.30pm, with Tim Bentinck and three co-stars. Tickets from £15.
What's On
Chichester's 1994 Rave Dream: Tickets From £15, Ends 17 Oct
Chichester Festival Theatre's Midsummer Night's Dream, set at a 1994 South Downs rave, runs to 17 October: prices from £15, discounts, free post-show talk.
Events
What's On in Chichester: Sloe Fair 20 Oct, Cathedral Lights
Chichester's Sloe Fair fills Northgate car park on 20 October and the Cathedral's Light Experience runs 23 to 31 October. 40 listings, each linked.
Selsey
Seal Bay Resort, Selsey Sold: Haven Name From 2027
Seal Bay Resort in Selsey is joining Haven and keeps its name until the end of 2026. What bookers need to know, and why Medmerry Park is now in administration.
Chichester
Chichester house prices: £432,078, down £5,980 in a year
July's district average is the lowest since February 2024. Flats fell 4.1%, and Horsham's lead as West Sussex's dearest district has doubled to £9,576.
Chichester
Chichester Street Works: West Street From 5 Oct, End 22 Dec
West Street is dug up from 5 October and South Street to 22 December, after a second redraw. Every street and date, and the £10.5m scheme behind the work.
Selsey
Selsey Coastal Scheme Exhibition: 15 to 17 October
The £250m scheme's public exhibition runs 15 to 17 October at Selsey Town Hall. Opening hours here, and why the project's own site does not list it.
Christmas
Chichester Christmas Markets 2026: Four Dates Now Set
Weald and Downland's market is 21 and 22 November, West Dean's 27 and 28 November, Fishbourne 5 and 6 December, the Novium 13 December. City dates to come.
Remembrance
Chichester Remembrance Sunday: 8 November, Litten Gardens
Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. Chichester's service is at the Litten Gardens war memorial, 11am last year, with the salute at Eastgate Square.
Christmas
Santa in Chichester 2026: Grottos and Breakfasts
Chichester Festival Theatre's grotto lists 4 to 23 December. Breakfast with Father Christmas at Weald and Downland runs 5 to 11 December from £12.50 a child.
Housing
Chichester's £1m Homelessness Fund: £562,000 Is New Money
£438,000 of the council's £1m housing fund was already committed or spent. Where the other £562,000 goes, and the £280,000 family home it is buying.
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.
Every fact carries a link to the document behind it.