Public Realm

What is the public realm?

The public realm is made up of streets and spaces that can be freely accessed by the public. It encompasses streets, parks, squares, pedestrian and cycle routes as a network of interconnected spaces. Good quality public realm is essential in creating environments that people want to live and work in.

Working with partners, the councils have delivered a series of public realm projects in recent times, including:

• East Street, Shoreham-by-Sea
• Queensway, Lancing
• Southwick Square, Southwick
• Portland Road, Worthing
• Railway Approach, Worthing

The work of the councils, working with partners (such as West Sussex County Council), aims to provide a coordinated approach to the design of public realm in our town centres.

Our projects

Current projects:

• Buckingham Park pavilion, Shoreham-by-Sea
• Goring shared use path
• Grafton multi-storey car park, Worthing
• Lancing Village Centre
• Montague Gardens in Montague Place, Worthing
• Old Salts Farm, Lancing
• Teville Gate, Worthing
• Worthing Heat Network

Recent projects:

• Portland Road, Worthing
• Railway Approach, Worthing
• Southwick Square

Reference documents

A number of guidance documents have been produced to support the development of our 'spaces' - these are highlighted below:

Shoreham Harbour Streetscape Guidance - May 2012: This guide is intended to help local authorities, developers and all those involved in the implementation, enhancement and design of public realm projects in the Shoreham Harbour area deliver cohesive and high quality works.

• Shoreham Harbour Streetscape Guidance - May 2012 (7,234KB)

Worthing Public Realm Options Appraisal Study - October 2017: Identifying a series of public realm improvements to Worthing town centre over the next 5 to 10 years that will “support town centre regeneration and deliver growth.” Working in direct partnership with West Sussex County Council (the Adur & Worthing Growth Programme), information and updates include:

• Worthing Public Realm Options Appraisal Study (October 2017) (22,484KB)
• Note: this is an 80-page document, most pages are A4, but some are A2 or A1. The PDF may load on screen fitted to your screen width based on the widest page, this means page 1 may appear as a 'thumbnail' so you will have to zoom into the document to read it.

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