New homes for our citizens

Introduction

Across Adur and Worthing there is a significant shortage of housing. There are around 3,000 local households on our housing waiting lists, but there is nowhere near enough of the affordable accommodation our communities need.

We are having to house hundreds of families outside the area, away from their friends, relatives, jobs and schools, which damages their quality of life and is very expensive.

We're working with partners and housebuilders to find creative ways to build more good quality, sustainable homes here for social rent and temporary accommodation for those at risk of becoming homeless.

It's vital that homes are built that our residents can afford, but we agree with our community that the greenbelt is not the right place for developments. Instead, we're protecting our beautiful environment and encouraging house-building on derelict or under-used land.

The situation in Adur

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Adur District Council, through its housing section called Adur Homes, owns around 2,500 houses, bungalows and flats across the area. We're investing millions of pounds to improve the standard of this accommodation but we also need to build more new council homes.

After reviewing the land we owned, we identified several small sites across the district that were perfect for redevelopment. Many of them had old garage blocks on them, but there were also simply derelict sections of land and a small car park.

After consulting with our citizens, we agreed on a list of these sites to develop for new council houses for people on our housing register. The first of these to be completed were in St Giles Close, Shoreham-by-Sea, in January 2024.

A number of these projects have now been completed, providing dozens of our citizens with a permanent roof over their heads. Our contractors are working on more sites for us and we're continuing to consider where else we can build the homes our community needs without damaging our beautiful surroundings.

Homes we've completed:

Sites we're working on:

Albion Street, Southwick
Ashcroft House, Shoreham-by-Sea
Daniel Close and Gravelly Crescent, Lancing
South Street, Lancing

We share regular updates on our Adur home-building projects on the:

Adur District Council Facebook page

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The situation in Worthing

Worthing Borough Council transferred its entire housing stock to a new organisation, Worthing Homes, in 1999. Worthing Homes owns and manages those homes, as well as supporting citizens on the Worthing waiting list into its properties when they become available.

As a borough we have far less social housing than other places, which has led to our waiting list growing to more than 1,900 local households. Hundreds of those citizens are having to be housed outside the area because we have nowhere for them here - meaning the proportion of our residents who we have to house outside Worthing is more than five times the national average.

We're determined to bring Worthing families back to Worthing, so we're finding creative ways to work with our partners to build more homes for social rent and temporary accommodation for those at risk of becoming homeless. We're working with developers to ensure that there is social and genuinely affordable housing built on major development sites in the town. We're also looking for sites across the town where we can build the new, sustainable council homes we desperately need - without building on our green spaces.

Homes we've completed: