New homes for our residents: Marine Place, Worthing
About the site
We’ve converted the empty offices we own at 24 Marine Place in Worthing town centre into five one-bedroom and studio flats for locals in need of somewhere to live.
Our contractors, Woodhart, have entirely reshaped the internal layout of the building to create the new council-owned accommodation, while retaining the historic Regency exterior as a feature of the conservation area.
We secured £400,000 from Homes England, the government’s national housing and regeneration agency, to help us fund the project. We’ve also secured a contribution of more than £50,000 from the government’s Brownfield Land Release Fund.
Well over 200 local households are currently having to be housed away from Worthing because of a severe shortage of social housing here.
New homes like these will allow us to bring Worthing people back to Worthing so they can be closer to their jobs, their children’s schools and their families and friends.
The first families moved into the new homes in Autumn 2025.
The original site:
December 2024
Construction teams stripped the building back to its bare frame so that the new layout could be created.
January 2025
Hollowing out the building so that the layout for the five new one-bedroom and studio flats can be created.
March 2025
Students from the University of Brighton’s School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering visited the development to see the new layout taking shape.
The new layout of the interior of the building starting to take shape.
May 2025
With all of the work needed on the roof complete, the installation of kitchens and bathrooms began.
October 2025
Page last updated: 22 October 2025