The Shoreham Society’s 40th Anniversary
This article by Gerard Rosenberg, Vice Chair of the Shoreham Society, first appeared in the May 2026 edition of Inside Shoreham and Southwick Magazine. We are reproducing it here for all the Members and Friends of the Shoreham Society, ahead of the Annual General Meeting taking place on Friday 15th May. The Shoreham Society is …...
Planning ahead
Old Shoreham is vulnerable to pressure for development and growth. The Friends of Old Shoreham are starting to explore how the community can be involved in creating positive solutions from the earliest opportunity and not be taken by surprise with other people’s plans for the area. Old Shoreham faces new development pressures:...
The Regeneration Game
Richard Bingham takes a look at three very different buildings all of which aim to contribute to the economic development of Shoreham. We live in something of a dormitory town. One third of employed residents leave Adur district each morning to go to work elsewhere. Brighton, Worthing, London – everyone is on the move. Or …...
Pebbles On The Beach
Richard Bingham continues his Shoreham Unlisted series on the unsung heroes of Shoreham’s architecture by looking at a stylish family house on Shoreham Beach. In many of the houses along the foreshore, the accommodation is upside down. Residents live upstairs, sleep downstairs. That’s certainly the case at 18 Old Fort Road, an...
Shoreham Survey 2025
Every five years the Shoreham Society conducts a survey to find out what matters most about Shoreham to people who live or work here. It’s the largest survey of its kind in the town. The insights gained from the survey not only influence the Shoreham Society’s future priorities and activities, but are also widely shared...
Cecil Norris House
Richard Bingham continues “Shoreham Unlisted”, his series of articles on the unsung heroes of Shoreham architecture, by taking a close look at Cecil Norris House. After Three Decades, Our Council Builds Again Readers may well know it as “the speckled house”. On its elevation along Ravens Road, Cecil Norris House is decorated with...
Modernism by Sea
Richard Bingham continues “Unlisted”, his series of articles on the unsung heroes of Shoreham’s architecture. Here he selects a much-admired house that exemplifies so much of the 1930s. On a quiet suburban street in north Shoreham, the white house certainly stands out. Lots of people stop to take a closer look. It’s not just the...
St Mary’s View Development
This is a guest post by Alex Legendre about her project to renovate and restore Chantry House on East Street and some surrounding buildings. I am a local, originally born in Hove. We moved to Shoreham 11 years ago, where myself and my husband set up Ginger and Dobbs, a shop and little cafe in …...
Good or Bad Conservation
– in a Conservation Area?
With the ‘urgent’ need for housing, Shoreham-by-Sea has become a building site. The developments on the Western Harbour Arm and the riverside make themselves known by their size and they surround the historic town centre. Within the town there are two new prospective developments in the conservation area itself: a redevelopment of...
