Adur & Worthing Councils

27/08/2026

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27/08/2026

Happy ponies, healthier habitat! 🐴🌿

Our Exmoor ponies are looking very much at home on Mill Hill, chewing their way through the scrub and vegetation that has begun to dominate the reserve.

Their grazing is helping to open up the chalk grassland, creating space for a wider variety of wildflowers, plants and insects to thrive. It’s a natural, gentle way of managing this precious landscape – and one that can help Mill Hill become even more biodiverse.

The ponies, supplied by Longbridge, are part of our partnership with South Downs National Park Authority, using grazing as an important tool in our nature recovery work.

After the Herdwick sheep made such a positive impact last autumn and winter, the Exmoors are now taking their turn through the summer, before the sheep return later in the year.

It’s wonderful to see them looking so settled while making such an important contribution to the future of this special place. If you have any photos of the ponies from your recent visits to Mill Hill, please share them in the comments!

Please remember to enjoy watching the ponies from a respectful distance, keep dogs under close control and close the gates behind you.

26/08/2026

Weekly food waste collections start soon ⏱️

Your refuse and recycling collections will continue as usual every other week. Simply put your food waste bin out for collection on the same day as either your recycling or general waste bin.

We’re delivering leaflets to households to explain how the service works, and there’s plenty of information on our website too: https://www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/bin-day/.

25/08/2026

Do you need help funding a community project where you live?

Applications for our Connected Communities grant fund will open next month, with funding between £1,000 and £5,000 available for voluntary, community and social enterprise groups based in Adur and Worthing.

Designed to make applications simpler and less time-consuming for community groups, the £115,000 fund has been created by streamlining four of our previous grants into one pot with one application form, one set of funding criteria and a consistent assessment process.

You can find out more about the fund, discuss your projects with us ahead of putting in an application, and build connections with other groups at a series of in-person networking events across Adur and Worthing this September.

Join us at any of these events:

🔹Tuesday 8th September from 3 - 4.30pm at The Shoreham Centre
🔹Friday 11th September from 10 - 11.30am at Worthing Town Hall
🔹Monday 14th September from 6 - 7.30pm at Eastbrook Manor Community Centre
🔹Wednesday 16th September from 10 - 11.30am at Lancing Parish Hall
🔹Thursday 24th September from 6 - 7.30pm at Field Place

To register your attendance, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/connected-communities-grant-fund-4863844

24/08/2026

We’re expanding the responsibilities of our enforcement partner to help keep our parks, coastline and public spaces safe, clean and welcoming for everyone.

Last October, we partnered with National Enforcement Solutions (NES), a specialist enforcement agency working across our coastline, green spaces, town and village centres. The 12-month trial was introduced to help tackle issues including littering and dog fouling.

While our cleansing teams work hard to keep our public spaces tidy, we don’t have dedicated officers focused on preventing these issues. NES officers have been regularly dealing with cigarette litter, which can make public spaces look untidy and release harmful chemicals into the environment. Dog fouling also remains an issue in some areas, causing harmful bacteria and parasites to pose a risk to people, pets and wildlife.

From September, we’ll be expanding the team’s enforcement responsibilities to include dog exclusion zones, including children’s play areas and parts of Worthing and Goring Beach during the summer months, as well as dogs-on-lead areas, which are in place at a number of parks across Adur and Worthing.

Most of these dog restrictions have been in place for more than a decade. However, residents and visitors may now notice an increased officer presence at these locations as a result of the partnership.

NES officers can issue £100 Fixed Penalty Notices on our behalf. Failure to comply with the relevant restrictions may result in prosecution, with a fine of up to £1,000 and a criminal record.

NES enforcement officers wear uniforms featuring our logo, carry ID badges and use body-worn cameras, which are activated when interacting with members of the public to help protect both officers and residents.

To find out more about public places where dogs are restricted, visit: https://www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/dogs/dog-control/

22/08/2026

Eleven years ago today, a tragic airshow disaster in Shoreham claimed the lives of eleven men and left a further sixteen people injured.

The devastating events of that day remain deeply etched in the memories of the victims’ families and friends, as well as those of residents across our communities.

On this anniversary, our thoughts are with all those who lost their lives, those who were injured or affected, and their loved ones.

21/08/2026

We’ve ordered the companies responsible for the Montague Quarter shopping precinct to clean their areas up immediately - or face a bill for contractors to be hired to do the job.

Despite multiple requests from us to Cayuga Developments and St. Clair Developments - the two owners of separate sections of the Montague Quarter - to regularly clean their paved space and prevent birds roosting above, the scale of pigeon poo there continues to bring down the look of the area. It also poses a health risk to passers-by.

Cayuga Developments has now been ordered to clean the paved area between Liverpool Road at TK Maxx and the entrance to Nando’s by Friday 28th August. We have also specified that those areas must be cleaned and maintained on a weekly basis going forward.

If it fails to clean the site satisfactorily by next Friday, or the site is not regularly cleaned after that, we’ll use contractors to do the work and will then bill the owner for it, using our powers under the Anti-social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014.

Cayuga Developments and St. Clair Developments have been told that they must also resolve the problem of birds roosting in the sections of the Montague Quarter that each owns.

Council leader Caroline Baxter launched the Pride in Worthing initiative to bring together council teams, our partners, businesses, community groups and residents behind one shared ambition - creating a cleaner, greener Worthing that reflects the pride people already have in the town.

A key part of it is creating a more concentrated, regular cleansing routine, which has made a noticeable improvement in the look of Portland Road and Montague Street in the last couple of weeks alone. We’ve also refurbished seafront shelters, repainted buildings and begun work on the permanent repair for the pier.

You can find out what work is planned each week by visiting https://www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/pride-in-worthing/ -we-are-doing. You can also learn more about Pride in Worthing on the same page, find opportunities where you can get involved, and report anything in the borough that needs tidying, fixing or improving.

20/08/2026

Work has begun on the permanent repair to protect Worthing Pier for future generations.

The pier had to be closed suddenly in October 2024 after it suffered storm damage to its supporting piles that left it unsafe for the public.

We were able to reopen it later that year after we worked with specialist engineering companies to design and build a temporary steel support structure that currently sits underneath the weakened section of the pier and gives it extra strength.

Council and specialist engineers have now begun work on a repair that will allow the pier to stand firm against the elements for decades to come without the need for the steel support structure.

The first step has been to remove two support piles as well as the concrete foundations of those piles and the two broken piles that have had to be removed previously. Our contractor had to use powerful jackhammers to break up the concrete, so we’re sorry to nearby residents who were disturbed by the noise. These photos show the support structure doing its job after the piles had been removed.

We’re doing the work in the summer and early autumn when the weather conditions and tides are generally easier to work in, in the hope that the project will be able to be completed more quickly and more cost effectively, with the pier able to remain open at the same time.

The next step will be using September’s spring tides - when the tide goes out far enough for the team to have a good amount of time on the beach - to install the foundations for the replacement piles that will eventually support that section of the pier.

In addition to this major work, regular routine maintenance will continue along the length of the underside of the pier. Minor repairs are a regular occurrence for a structure of the pier’s age, and include tightening bolts and replacing tie bars and bull bars underneath the pier’s decking.

17/08/2026

West Sussex County Council has launched a climate change consultation, inviting residents to share their views on proposed actions to help make sure our county remains a thriving, resilient place for future generations.

The consultation closes on Sunday 27th September, so there’s plenty of time to get involved and have your say.

Find out more and take part here: https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/climatesurvey

17/08/2026

Weekly food waste collections will be coming to Adur and Worthing from September. Find out how food waste is recycled and turned into valuable biogas and fertiliser in this short video:

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