In 1930 Goring Gap formed part of the land surrounding Goring Hall, now a private hospital. Plans were agreed by Worthing Borough Council (formerly Worthing Corporation) to develop all of the land from the Littlehampton Road to the Seafront. The town agreed to purchase the Greensward as an open space for £15,000 and was given the Ilex Way and the Plantation in return for granting planning permission to build houses. This was all documented and is stored in the archives at Worthing library. The original agreed plan is below and town meeting notes are all still there. Our forefathers even built roads (Amberley Drive) and laid mains drainsdrains.
Click on the images below to enlarge. However you look at it – Goring Gap, all of it, should have been developed years ago. Fact. The Planning Inspectorate has confirmed there is no evidence our land has ever been used for agricultural purpose and the last known use of our land was residential development land.
The only reason the development of Goring Gap didn’t finish was the outbreak of war in 1939.
Like Cinderella’s glass slipper, if you look above, you can see our land registry title (shaded in pink) is cut perfectly to the original development plan.
