Welcome to the Bognor Regis Civic Society website and, if you are not a resident, welcome to our Town and come to visit us soon. We hope you will find the information you need in these pages, but if not please use our contact page to get in touch and ask. We welcome all enquiries and we warmly welcome all new members too!

This website is for all who care about Bognor Regis, and we take an active interest in everything in and around our Town, including the parishes of Pagham, Aldwick, Bersted, Felpham and Middleton. Click on about us to find out more about our Society and what we do.

We very strongly believe that everybody in the Town should have a say in important issues and decisions about the Town that affect us all. Click on about us to find out how we encourage this, and have a look at the information in this website to learn about some of the issues involved.

PUBLIC MEETINGS. We hold public meetings every month, except December, and everybody is welcome to come along and have their say. Click on public meetings for more info.

BOGNOR REGIS REGENERATION. We are especially interested in this, and witthin this there are lots of complicated issues which we all need to pay attention to, or some expensive mistakes could be made. For more info, click on Bognor Regis Regeneration, our proposals, no Regis Centre flats, proper consultation and current position.

NEWS. Find out about all the current and latest issues of importance locally. Such things as: what would happen to our theatre if St. Modwen’s plans went ahead? Are they really going to close the Esplanade? When are all the potholes going to be repaired? Why didn’t ASDA come here? What’s being done about congestion on the A259? Are they going to build thousands of houses at Chalcraft Lane? Why has WSCC spent £120,000 on chairs they don’t really need? What happened when three of the 6 General Election 2010 candidates failed to turn up at a meeting we specially organised for the public to meet and question them? Click on the reds to find out all this and more...

WANT TO SEE SOMETHING CHANGED OR IMPROVED? Join the Bognor Regis Civic Society and join an ever-increasing group of friendly people who are keen to see our Town an even better place. You can do as much or as little as you like, but your voice will always be heard. Click on Join Us for more info.

LINKS. There are lots of organisations and individuals in and around the Town who can help you locate that much needed service or product. We are adding to the list all the time, click on Links to find out more...

IMPORTANT THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN OUR TOWN

THE ASDA THAT ARUN REFUSED US IS NOW TO BE BUILT AT FERRING. A huge regeneration and job-creation opportunity for Bognor Regis was lost when Arun District Council refused planning permission for ASDA at Oldlands Farm in 2008. Now it’s gone ‘east of the river’ to Ferring and Bognor Regis folk are furious.....more

HOW MUCH ARE YOUR COUNCILLORS COSTING YOU? Their allowances (that’s pay, not expenses) have come down slightly but are still over £400,000. Click on councillors’ allowances to know more...

MASSIVE SECRET BUILDING PLANS AFOOT IN BOGNOR REGIS? A leading Councillor has admitted that there may be secret plans to massively build on the Hothamton area at the top of Queensway by St. Modwen, but it seems that this will have none of the benefits previously suggested - just a shop and lots of flats. Click on Hothamton for more.

IF YOU ‘HAVEN’T A CLUE’ ABOUT REGENERATION, WHERE DO YOU WORK? Why, in regeneration of course! Richard McMann, formerly chief of Arun’s Bognor Regis Regeneration Task Force publicly admitted “I haven’t got a clue what regeneration is” and retired from Arun. But where is he now and what is he doing? Find out more by clicking on McMann.

IF YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE TOWN, CLICK ON LOCAL NEWS

YES! AFTER ALL THE STRUGGLE SINCE September 2010, 2 hour free parking is finally coming to Bognor Regis. Starting on 1st December, anyone with the correct free parking disc will be able to park for 2 hours free of charge in the Fitzleet multi-storey and Lyon Street car parks.

THIS IS A GREAT VICTORY FOR PEOPLE POWER although there is much more to be done yet. It took a 5,807 signature petition, an election and the combined efforts of the Civic Society and the major Bognor Regis representative bodies to make it happen - and it shows what we can do when we work together.

BUT HOW AND WHERE DO YOU GET A FREE PARKING DISC, and where are the car parks to use them? Click on Free Parking is Here! for more information.