In the paper "Some remarks on approximative compactness", Rev.Roumaine Math. Pyres Appl. 9 (196U), Ivan Singer proved that if K is an approximatively compact Chebyshev set in a metric space, then the metric projection onto K is continuous. The object of this paper is to show that though, in general, the continuity of the metric projection supported by a Chebyshev set does not imply that the set is approximatively compact, it is indeed so in a large class of Banach spaces, including the locally uniformly convex spaces. It is also proved that in such a space X the metric projection onto a Chebyshev set is continuous on a set dense in X .