Creating a Community Banner
A Local Textile Art Project Celebrating Heritage and Community Would you like to be part of a local community project creating a new piece of textile art that represents the heritage, landscape and community within Old Shoreham and the surrounding area? The Community Banner is currently being created with people from across the...
Update on Local Government Reorganisation
Adur District Council has just taken a big decision that may profoundly affect the future of local government in and around Shoreham for many years to come. At a full Council meeting on 23 September it agreed a proposal on the reorganisation of local government to be submitted a few days later to the government’s …...
Mill Hill Local Nature Reserve
Local volunteers are leading a restoration project above Shoreham to reverse decades of ecological decline and revive butterfly and wildflower populations. Mill Hill: restoring a precious chalk grassland A community-led effort is underway to bring Mill Hill Local Nature Reserve back to life. Once world-famous for its butterflies and...
Powering our Local Community
A guest article by Chris Hannon, Transition Town Shoreham We’re using more energy than ever, and we will need more. The National Grid is anticipating an increase in electricity demand of 50% by 2035. There’s a mix of factors driving this, such as energy-hungry new tech like AI, the transition to a low-carbon economy (EV …...
Shoreham’s Very Own Flight Simulator
In the latest of his “Shoreham Unlisted” series, Richard Bingham stumbles across an important surviving relic of World War Two. It looks like the business end of a sink plunger. Or the green dome of an alien spaceship, crash landed between the car park at Monks Farm country park and the busy A27. In fact, …...
Devolution – the Options for Adur
The Shoreham Society convened the first public meeting in Shoreham on the devolution proposals for Sussex. In Sussex, the political landscape is about to change. Next year, Sussex will elect its first Mayor, with devolved powers over key policy areas such as transport, health and housing. The following year will see the gradual...
The Village Map Project
Do you live in Shoreham (Old or New)? Would you like to be involved in a community project that is about to start? The Village Map Project is a development from maps created for the Old Shoreham Heritage Trail in 2024 and inspired by the West Sussex Millennium Maps project, which did not include Shoreham. …...
Devolution – Have Your Say
The Shoreham Society and Adur District Council are very keen for residents of Shoreham to be informed about devolution, to discuss it with other residents and to express your considered views to local councillors. Ultimately, it is your elected district councillors who will influence the shape that devolution eventually takes in...
Nature Map project
‘Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?’* Julia Widdows describes a new initiative to capture an up-to-date picture of the natural environment of Shoreham’s ‘Great Big Back Garden’, helping to identify priorities and opportunities for nature support and recovery. When Friends of...
Greening Old Shoreham Garden Survey
Domestic gardens are vital for biodiversity. Julia Widdows describes a new local project to encourage wildlife at our doorsteps. Our countryside is under constant pressure from development, traffic, pollution, and intensive agriculture, and is no longer the haven for a rich variety of wildlife that it has been in the past. UK gardens...
