New homes for our residents: Victoria Road, Worthing

About the site

We've redeveloped the site of the old RAF Air cadets temporary buildings in Victoria Road to create 11 new energy-efficient council properties for families with children.

The new flats, close to Worthing town centre, have been built to Passivhaus standards, which means they are so well constructed, insulated and ventilated that they need very little energy to heat or cool, so residents will have far lower fuel bills.

We secured around £800,000 of funding from Homes England, the government's national housing and regeneration agency, to help pay for the clearing of the site and the construction of the new homes to highly sustainable standards.

These new flats mean families from Worthing who we were having to house outside the borough, because of a lack of properties here, have been able to move closer to their friends and relatives, their jobs and their children's schools.

The original site in 2022:

Photos: The old RAF Air Cadets site in Victoria Road in Worthing - building viewed through entrance gates

October 2024

Our contractor, Sunninghill, will shortly move onto the site to start work on the new flats. In recent days, bushes and shrubbery has been removed from the site, under the supervision of an ecologist, in advance of the main construction teams moving in.

November 2024

Sunninghill has now started the groundworks. Last month members of the Sunninghill team and some of our officers held an open session at Worthing Town Hall for residents to ask questions and give us their thoughts about the upcoming work. We're grateful to everyone who came out to speak to us and will ensure we do everything we can to minimise the impact of the project on the neighbours.

January 2025

Our contractors have resumed work post-Christmas on the construction of our 11 new energy-efficient council homes. Over the coming weeks the first foundations of the new homes will begin to appear on the site.

March 2025

The substructure blockwork has now been completed. Draining runs, water mains and sewerage pipes are all in place and work is now underway on the ground floor walls.

May 2025

Our contractor, Sunninghill, has now completed the brick and blockwork on the first floor of the site and is pushing on into the second floor.

June 2025

The roof is almost complete. Our contractor has also installed the doors and windows on the ground and first floors of the building, and work is well underway on the electrics and plumbing.

September 2025

Pipework, electrical cabling and plaster have all been installed in the ground floor flats and communal areas, and work is underway in the first and second floor properties.

January 2026

The work has been completed and the first families have moved into their new homes.

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