Storage units approved in Shoreham

Thursday, 11 September 2025 12:00

By Thomas Hanway, Local Democracy Reporter @V2RadioSussex

Unit 3, New Wharf, Brighton Road, Shoreham By Sea, sourced from Adur and Worthing councils planning portal

Plans for new external self-storage units in Shoreham have been approved by Adur District Council.

Members of the council’s planning committee approved the plans to create 33 external storage units at New Wharf, Brighton Road, Shoreham, at a meeting on Monday, September 9.

The units will be individual self-storage sheds lining the boundary of the site, external to the main self-storage warehouse owned and operated by the applicant of the plans, Cinch Self Storage.

The main warehouse on the site is to be reclad as part plans approved by the council earlier this year, in order to ready it for use as a self-storage warehouse.

Previous plans, approved in December, 2023, would have seen a block of 62 flats over eight storeys built on the site, with the applicant saying no affordable housing could be included in the plans because of concerns over financial viability.

The self-storage units were given planning permission for five years, which members noted meant previous plans to redevelop the site for housing would see the permission lapse in that period.

Council officers said a five-year period would give the council time to consider how the site fitted into the area, with most of the surrounding area being redeveloped for housing as part of the development of Shoreham’s Western Harbour Arm.

They said if the housing plans were to come back in five years they would need to be submitted as an entirely new application to be considered for approval again.

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