There’s a lot going on in Littlehampton at the moment. From graffiti patrols organised by the Town Centre Action Group to large scale urban redevelopment plans, Littlehampton is a town driving itself forward.

This work is being guided by a document called The Littlehampton Vision. Commissioned by Littlehampton Town Centre Action Group, the Vision is both an ethos and a strategy to guide the town’s development up to the year 2020. It aims to capitalise on all of the opportunities inherent within the town as well as guiding physical and perceptual regeneration of the area during the next decade and a bit.

The Vision comes as a response to difficulties that the town has faced in recent years, as the national trend for seaside holidays has diminished, manufacturing levels have slumped and supermarkets have relocated. By 2020, if current progress and the aims of the Vision are anything to go by, Littlehampton will once again be ‘des res’ for the discerning.

Current headline areas for redevelopment include:

• Railway Wharf: This is highlighted for high quality employment land with a range of flexible light industrial units adjacent to the Riverside Industrial Estate together with some smaller business park/high tech units to bring some much needed high quality, modern facilities into the town.
  
  
• St Martin’s Car park: St Martin's could become mixed development with the opportunity for leisure, retail, residential, multi storey car parking and a new town square. To aid the integration of this area into the rest of the town, Franciscan Way could be downgraded to improve the pedestrian and cyclist links. This will help with the movement flow around the town as well as encouraging those visiting the traditional town center to wander further afield.
  
  
• Clifton Road: Currently dominated by Travis Perkins, the Clifton Road site forms a barrier between the key strategic locations of town center, river and seafront. However, it does provide an opportunity to create another mixed use, vibrant part of the town which will naturally strengthen the links between these strategic locations.

Further details are available in this "No Optician Required" document, downloadable here: No_Optician_Required.pdf

To get involved with the vibrant plans for Littlehampton, please contact Miriam Nicholls at Arun District Council on 01903 713436.