No buyer for Worthing pier pavilion

Worthing Pier's Southern Pavilion Worthing Pier's Southern Pavilion

Worthing Pier pavilion, closed due to antisocial behaviour remains unoccupied – six months after going on the market.

The Southern Pavilion was built on Worthing Pier in 1935 and is one of three main buildings on the attraction.

However, in August Worthing Borough Council took back control of the premises when the current lease expired.

Half a year on and the art deco venue remains unoccupied.

Recent town hall papers show the lack of possession has cost the council £62,000 in income.

A council spokeswoman said: “Initial marketing has commenced, seeking expressions of interest on the basis of the current licensing restrictions.

“More extensive marketing may take place depending on the outcome of the ongoing review.”

In summer 2011 Worthing Borough Council granted permission for the former nightclub on the pier to re-open as Angelik.

But police successfully appealed against its return, with district commander Ian Pollard arguing it was “not in the public interest” in light of previous incidents, such as underage drinking at the venue.

The current lease expired in August.

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Comments(6)

Soleless Shooter says...
11:22am Sun 24 Feb 13

Perhaps there's still money to be made if they were to set up a charitable trust to oversee it's upkeep and refurbishment? How could it fail?

Alternatively, looks like a perfect location for a male-female binary model, biological by-product elimination and evacuation centre (in pleb-speak that's a £300,000 transgender public loo courtesy of a progressive council, I think)?

clubrob6 says...
1:08pm Sun 24 Feb 13

Im sure people would have noticed that the police don't want any night clubs in Worthing,they object to any form of night clubs for our young.Late venues have private security and backup but unfortunately police expect late venues to police the streets too.If the police were more visable instead of hiding away in cars and vans that would deter most of the trouble.The same thing is happening I brighton we have very good private door security backed up by emergency response units that look like police cars but are actually private security unfortunately this has led to visable policing being removed in the early hours.There are not many cities in the country that yobs can go on a 2 hr spree burning out cars like what happened in hove recently.Worthing used to have a great night life supporting loads of jobs but im afraid the police have killed the trade off ,I think they want to do the same in brighton.Both in brighton and hove and Worthing don't expect the police to be there in your time of need quite simply they are not on duty in the early hours the ones that are leave our much needed night life to private security to police.Hopefully things will change in march as the leader of brighton police retires leaving places like st james street more dangerous than 10 yrs ago he has removed visable police at night so he looks good for his budget cuts,crime has only gone down because there are no police on the beat to record any .

SUSSEXBOY1 says...
6:41pm Sun 24 Feb 13

Although I like living in Worthing and for somebody of my age mid 50's I enjoy the quietness, Worthing really is dead. Compare that to Brighton which is where I come from originally, there is literally hardly anything for residents or tourists under 35, no night economy at all. The police presumably with the support of the magistrates kill all nightclubs

Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit says...
6:49pm Sun 24 Feb 13

Soleless Shooter wrote:
Perhaps there's still money to be made if they were to set up a charitable trust to oversee it's upkeep and refurbishment? How could it fail?

Alternatively, looks like a perfect location for a male-female binary model, biological by-product elimination and evacuation centre (in pleb-speak that's a £300,000 transgender public loo courtesy of a progressive council, I think)?
Good point well made, but I think it will be better if they can somehow find a way to make it a general facilitation point for citizens who subscribe to the male/female binary to socially interact with each other in a mutually advantageous, friendly manner without any obvious discrimination based on age race creed or color.

In other words make it into a nice pub for ordinary people.

chrisso says...
9:08pm Sun 24 Feb 13

A saturday night in Worthing is quieter than a wet tuesday night in a tiny Himalayan village populated only by monks and yaks. For a so-called seaside resort, it really is a joke.

csiiscool says...
1:11pm Sat 2 Mar 13

they can change the use of it to a ice rink open all year around, as the temp. the worthing has is use loads and it can be used bring talent for the country at ice skating event and comp.

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