New homes for our residents: Marine Place, Worthing

About the site

We're converting 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, are entirely reshaping 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've 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 £53,000 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.

We hope the first families will be able to move into the flats this summer.

The original site:

December 2024

Construction teams are currently stripping the building back to its bare frame so that the new layout can be created.

When the work is complete there will also be attractive trees and bushes planted outside to brighten up the road.

January 2025

The redevelopment of the building involves our contractors first preparing the internal shell.
As these photos show, the team are 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 a construction project first hand.

The 3rd year architectural technology students used the trip to learn how the building was being reconfigured for its new purpose and the challenges that are involved in projects like this.

As these photos show, the new layout of the interior of the building is really starting to take shape.

May 2025

All of the work needed on the roof has been completed. Kitchens and bathrooms are now being installed, ready to be connected to the utilities.

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