Local fact sheet
Worthing's homes, by the numbers
Worthing in the 2021 census: 49,538 households, 65% houses, 35% flats.
Broadwater, Goring, Durrington, Heene, Offington and Marine all sit inside BN11, BN13 and BN14. Flats total 35.3% of the stock in this part of West Sussex, 23.9% in purpose-built blocks and 9.0% converted out of former houses, while social renting is low at 9.8% against 67.5% owned. Conversions are the awkward category, because the floor between two dwellings was never designed as a separating structure: it is timber, it flexes, and it passes footfall straight downwards. A floating system over a resilient layer, with skirtings kept clear of the finish, is the honest answer there. Purpose-built blocks are usually concrete and more forgiving, though the lease still governs what may be laid.
One household in eleven in Worthing occupies a flat subdivided from a bigger building, with another near quarter in purpose-built blocks around Marine, Central, Heene and Castle. Getting a floor into one of those flats is a different exercise from getting it into a house.
A pallet cannot be left in a communal hallway, a lift may not take a long board, and a stairwell with a tight turn sets a hard limit on what can be carried up. Where access is awkward, a shorter board format solves in the ordering what would otherwise be improvised.
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