
Welcome to the Technical Services Section web page. This page seeks to inform you of general information about the Section and its work and leads you through to further pages providing greater detail of specific service areas.
Technical Services are a multi-disciplinary team of 66 professional staff led by Cliff Harrison M.R.I.C.S. a Chartered Building Surveyor, and comprises of 8 teams supported by a range of external consultants. The Section extensively utilises new technology with GIS, CAD, digital imaging, scanned drawing register, scanned document management system, and a project management system along with extensive use of Office software.
The 8 teams are:
- Engineering Services providing the Council's civil engineering functions, including coast protection, land drainage and highway liaison with West Sussex County Council.
- Surveying & Design Services repair, maintain, carry out improvement and refurbishment contracts and new build schemes to Adur and Worthing Councils non housing corporate property. Other areas of work include public convenience cleaning contract, CCTV liaison with Sussex Police and energy management.
- Estates dealing with the management of Council property
- Support Services Team supporting the above teams and Ordnance Survey plan provision and contractor/consultant records.
- Business Services provides purchasing and procurement capability & aims to ensure E-Government compatibility throughout the Council.
- Information Communications Technology maintain and develop the current IT infrastructure, equipment and systems at all of the Councils outstations throughout the Borough, and provides design and implementation of the council's websites..
- Corporate Information responsible for the Local Land & Property Gazetteer (LLPG), Street Naming & Numbering, House Naming & Numbering, Worthing Borough Council's Mapping Services Agreement , Corporate Geographical Information Systems, Data & Interactive Mapping site Discover Worthing.
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On-street Parking Team manage the Civil Parking Enforcement (CPE) within the Borough
We are not responsible for:
- Worthing Borough Council has no council housing stock following Large Scale Voluntary Transfer to Worthing Homes Ltd.
- We are not responsible for the vast majority of roads, pavements or street lighting in the Borough, for details see Engineering Services and Streets, Travel and Transport
- We are not responsible for public or private sewers, for details see Engineering Services
- We are not part of the Planning Services Section
- Town Centre Christmas decorative lighting is managed by the Town Centre Initiative
- Play areas are maintained by the Parks Section
Contact Us
We are always keen to receive your feedback, especially where you think we could improve our services.
If you wish to contact any of the Technical Services teams, please contact Technical Services.
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