A Worthing seafront shelter is to be reopened as a retail and storage unit.
Councillors have approved plans for a change of use of the shelter south of Windsor Road, for it to become half store and half cold storage, toilet and ice-making facilities for Worthing beach fleet fishermen.
The shelter was boarded up in 2021 due to complaintsof anti-social behaviour, with Worthing Borough Council stating at the time it was looking to make ‘better use’ of the shelter.
The scheme was unanimously approved by the council’s planning committee at its meeting on Wednesday, October 16.
Rosey Whorlow (Lab, Central) said the new facilities were a ‘much needed resource’ for Worthing fishermen, adding times had been ‘hard’ for them recently.
Helen Abrahams (Lab, Heene) said it would add something ‘really positive’ to the area – but the council should be cautious about the proximity of the sales area to the cycle path.
One letter of support was submitted to the plans from a Shoreham resident, saying they ‘wholeheartedly’ supported the plans and that they would help preserve Worthing’s ‘fishing heritage’.
