Lancing Police Station – SOLD

By Editorial Team | 25 July 2025
Aerial view of Lancing Police station with the word SOLD written across the image with 'To who and for what?'

Dear Members, Friends and Supporters,

Adur District Council has sold the old Lancing Police Station.

The council are not releasing any details so we don’t know who to or for what purpose the site will be used. 

Adur Collective Community Land Trust was not able to raise sufficient funds via grants and commercial loans to submit a bit.

But ACCLT did help Worthing Homes submit a bid.  ACCLT believed that if we could not raise enough money to build community owned homes the next best option would be to ensure a housing association secured the site to build social housing.

We know from the Now and Into the Future community consultation in 2022 – two of the key issues raised by the people of Lancing were: a lack of truly affordable housing and the need for more community space to help connect people.

So, ACCLT is deeply disappointed that the current council administration – which promised support for community led housing in their local manifesto at the last elections – have not listened to the people of Lancing and used the rare opportunity of using a site already in public ownership to provide desperately needed affordable homes.

Aerial view of Lancing Police Station with the words SOLD across the image and 'To who and for what?' beneath.
Where does Adur Collective Land Trust go from here?
In the context of potential changes to local democracy governing structures, rising interest rates, rising building costs, continual postponing of Local Plan updates, little national policy for community led housing will Adur Collective Community Land Trust ever manage to get a project off the ground?

Join us at our AGM to join an open discussion on  ACCLT’s future.

Thursday 18 September 19:00 – 21:00 at the The Circular Space, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 6PA

More details will be sent nearer the time but please make a note of this date in your diaries.

ACCLT has over 400 members. It would be great to hear from as many of you as is possible.
Founder members Linda McCanna and Jo Crockett will be stepping down from direct involvement at the AGM. We thank them enormously for all that they have contributed in helping ACCLT on its way. 
If you plan to attend the AGM /open discussion or would like to get more involved, then drop us an email at
 
info@acclt.org.uk 

A quick reminder about why community led-homes are needed 

  • Adur Collective Community Land Trust homes will:
  • be owned and managed by the CLT for the community in perpetuity
  • cannot be sold off for profit
  • offer rents below market rates
  • provide long-term secure tenancies be aimed at households on middle to low incomes who are finding renting or buying in Adur a struggle but have low priority on the housing register
  • aimed at households with strong connections to Adur
  • provide additional truly affordable housing stock in Adur
  • 83% of households in need are unlikely to have sufficient income to afford housing at current prices
  • 70% of affordable homes needed are for 1 or 2 bedroom properties
  • 80% of affordable housing demand is for rental accommodation

Source: Adur District Council Strategic Housing Market Assessment (2020) 

At the 2021-22 financial year end, Adur had 829 households on the housing waiting list.Even though house prices are lower than the rest of West Sussex and the South East, in terms of affordability this has worsened from 7.36 times earnings in 2003 to 13.95 times earnings in 2022. 

Source: Adur District Council Data Summaries

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Adur Collective Community Land Trust – trying to ensure there are truly affordable, decent and secure homes in Adur.

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