Teville Gate: the Worthing site’s sorry saga spanning decades
By The Newsroom
Published 21st Jan 2019, 09:21 BST
Updated 27th Feb 2019, 15:25 BST
The latest chapter in the Teville Gate development was revealed this week after a planning application was submitted for the site’s regeneration.
In this special picture article, we take a look at the site’s complex history over the last two decades. Click here for the latest.
New designs for Teville Gate / Station Square Worthing. SUS-170311-191558001
Worthing residents were not always worried about Teville Gate. This watercolour, dated 1805-1810, depicts a turnpike gate at the junction of Broadwater Road and Teville Road in the vicinity of the site
200+ years later: Farrho Developments' 1998 scheme to demolish the car park in favour of plans which included a cinema was among projects which never happened
Hanson Capital Management's 2006 proposal included a swimming pool complex, cinema, restaurants, shops and 260 flats, among other attractions. According to council records, permission was not finally approved until 2010.
Another view of the initial Hanson scheme. The Herald reported a 'fundamental split between the council's Tory administration and the Lib Dem opposition over the provision of a pool at Teville Gate
Revised plans were unveiled by Hanson in 2010, after it was decided a new pool to replace the Aquarena was to be built on the seafront. Although councillors approved revisions, a legal agreement was never signed
A decision to close Comet in 2012 (pictured in 2009) left just one firm remaining at the increasingly dilapidated site. 'Continued economic turbulence' was blamed for lack of a development
The Herald reported in 2014 that Hanson had lost control of most of the site, with a complex financial background revealed relating to loans tied up with the failed Anglo Irish Bank.
In the same year, fed-up residents gave the site a colourful facelift in an effort to make the site look a little more respectable
