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Councillors gave the green light for three separate developments across Adur which will see garages replaced with homes.

During a meeting of Adur District Council’s planning committee on Monday (September 6), members discussed three applications to build on the ‘hidden homes sites’.

ADC will now build new homes at St Giles Close and Wilmot Road in Shoreham-by-Sea and Gardner Road, Southwick.

During the same meeting, the Adur local plan was discussed and council officers said it was ‘vital’ to seek out new sites for housing.

The garages in St Giles Close, Shoreham, proposed to be demolished to make way for new homes

They said: “It’s absolutely vital that we undertake a rigorous assessment of all viable housing opportunities.”

This is because ADC has under delivered on housing targets for the last three years and new government targets require the local authority to deliver 248 homes per annum – it currently delivers around 177 a year.

But Jeremy Gardner (Lab, St Mary’s) expressed concerns about overlooking standards at the sites in question, most of which are surrounded by existing housing.

New homes approved at garage sites in Shoreham and Southwick