It is with a heavy heart that LBP provides this update for you, following the recent articles in the press.

At 11:40am on Tuesday, LBP was called to assist an incident in Chartwell Road to find eight emergency vehicles already on site.

An experienced contractor, far from retirement and in great health, was working on the roof when at 11:21am he tragically fell into the empty unit. His colleagues, some of which were family members, acted instantly calling out loud for help. LBP workers heard their cries and immediatley took action to call 999 and race to their aid.

A first aider reached the man in moments, and the emergency services started arriving at 11:24am, quickly followed by responders from the Air Ambulance Charity. They provided every possible specialist medical intervention to try to save his life, working so hard but were unfortunately unable to save him and he sadly passed away.

LBP would firstly like to pass our condolences to the family and ask that everyone please respect their privacy. This extremely close family remained on site until the very end during this terribly difficult time and LBP would like everyone to please give them the time they need.

LBP would also like to thank the emergency services for their amazing skills, caring and professionalisms, along with numerous people who dropped everything that day to help during the incident. To Kelly, Lynn and Jason for raising the alarm and being first on site to help. The two sites who quickly gained approval and cleared yards to enable a helicopter landing  site, just in case it might make the difference. And the kindness of everyone who helped care for his family and colleagues, along with the businesses who supported the emergency services, clearing space and halting their operations to avoid causing any delay in his care.

LBP would like to personally thank Recorra, Bidfood, SIG ltd, Rabbit Group, the DVLA and Adur & Worthing Council Services for their unquestioning support!

The contractor may not have been based on Lancing Business Park, but that day everyone showed their true colours and made LBP very proud to be part of our business community.

If there is one thing we can learn from Tuesday, it’s that unfortunate incidents can happen to even the most experienced of us. LBP therefore asks that everyone on and off the park, please take time before working at height to assess and mitigate every potential risk and even things you wouldn’t consider could possibly happen, so we can help keep our workers safe and back with their families at the end of each day. Thank you.

Please see below the current HSE guidance which honestly is essential reading for anyone thinking of working at height:

https://www.hse.gov.uk/work-at-height/

https://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/safetytopics/scaffoldinginfo.htm

The 2026 Adur & Worthing Business Awards Shortlist has now been announced, and LBP are very proud to see so many LBP Businesses and Sponsors featured within this year's shortlist.

LBP wishes everyone the best of luck for the Awards Ceremony on 6th November at The Charmandean Centre in Worthing:

(Please click the company logos below to find out more about each company)

Les & Stephen Fuller, along with their Team at Triad are based in Peter Road and have been shortlisted for the following awards:

Delphine Kennedy and her Team at DBK Aero are based in Crown Buildings in Chartwell Road and have been shortlisted for the following awards:

Thomas Robertson and his Team at Scout Store have their development site in Marlborough Road and have been shortlisted for the following award:

Liana Naylor and her Team at Inside Publications are based in Commerce Way and have been shortlisted for the following award:

Kate Hallin and her Team at Bennett Griffin, LBP Sponsors have been shortlisted for the following award:

Anna & Paddy O’Donoghue, along with their Team at Hunters Recruitment & Training, LBP Sponsors have been shortlisted for the following award:

Along with their lovely Ara Harris who has been shortlisted for:

To view this year's full shortlist please click here

LBP would like to thank everyone for their understanding whilst Rabbit Group skilfully demolished two substantial industrial sites in Marlborough Road.

Yesterday, the Rabbit Group completed the demolition and clearance of 77 Marlborough Road and plans are now underway to determine if land levelling works are needed on site next week.

LBP visited site yesterday to see the completed works and was really surprised as now the old building has been cleared, the site is much larger than expected.

Industrial IT Systems are now working on the build programme for their new headquarters, with construction expected to commence in a few months. LBP will keep you up to date on these works.

This week, Beard Construction has been busily preparing the cleared site at 75 Marlborough Road, to commence construction of Scout Store’s new headquarters.

Beard Construction have kindly provided the newsletter below which gives an outline of their build programme due to be completed in July 2027. Please click the image below for further details:

Beard Construction has already made a great addition to the LBP Community!

Yesterday, Aber who is in charge of their site security, kindly came to LBP’s aid by helping to push a broken-down vehicle out of the middle of Marlborough Road. This kind action enabled the queue of vehicles to safely pass and clear the road. LBP would like to thank Aber for his support and the drivers who waited patiently. We are always stronger when we work to together!

LBP would like to thank the business who kindly reported that the Western Road traffic lights were changing far too quickly and not letting many vehicles onto the A259.

LBP reported this to West Sussex Highways' Traffic Lights Contractor, who met LBP on site on Wednesday morning to find there was indeed a fault with the eastbound traffic sensor. This was immediately resolved, enabling more vehicles to exit Western Road and head towards Shoreham. Whilst on-site, LBP also witness between 15 and 20 vehicles managing to exit westbound onto the A259 within each light change.

The Traffic Lights Contractor explained that we are fortunate, as the lights at this junction have been upgraded to AI technology rather than the old radar system, which had a wire coil in the ground requiring a vehicle to sit directly on the wire coil to initiate the sensor.  

The new AI technology installed now checks all three directions, determines what type of vehicles are queuing and how long the queue is in each direction. This enables the new system to prioritise how long the lighting change stays in place for, up to the maximum time allowed. This ensures that no one should be left sitting in the queue without a chance of entering the A259.

The complication comes when all three directions have long queues, as there is little point in letting too many vehicles out of Western Road, as there will be insufficient space for these vehicles to clear the junction. This has been happening recently due to the roadworks at Park Road in Worthing and those on the A259 in Lancing.

LBP is working with West Sussex Highways to determine if a painted junction box on the A259 would help prevent vehicles from sitting in a queue in the middle of junction, to give more space for vehicles to exit Western Road. A big consideration is whether this could actually reduce the number of vehicles exiting Western Road, as they would need to have clear space the other side of the junction box before exiting.

LBP will continue working on this to see if a painted junction will be beneficial.

At 4:20am on Monday there was a near miss in Chartwell Road North.

LBP are so pleased to report that the driver of the HGV heading the wrong way around the one-way system and the car travelling in the correct direction, who was carefully pulling out of a parking space behind another HGV, managed to avoid a head on collision.

This was especially important as when LBP checked the incident on the CCTV, a cyclist was seen but a few moments later heading the wrong way in the middle of the road, directly behind the HGV.

In the 4am darkness, this is an incident which we can count our lucky stars that no-one was hurt!

LBP appreciates that a driver or cyclist might assume at this time of the early hours, they are the only one travelling on the one-way system, but they would be wrong! LBP has movements 24/7 and rarely is Chartwell Road quiet.

LBP has reviewed all the footage from that morning and contacted two companies to ask that they ensure their staff do not travel the wrong way in future.

LBP has also had reports of cyclist travelling the wrong way on the road during the day and we ask that all staff please do not do this, as you are likely to meet an HGV head-on and we would prefer you get to work or home in once piece.

Please help us to keep everyone safe by always driving and cycling in the correct direction on the one-way system. 

Thank you.

The demolition of Scout Store’s site at 75 Marlborough Road is nearing the end, with all the buildings now down and site clearance works underway, ready for concrete crushing to commence mid-September. Rabbit's Demolition Team are due to exit the site by 2nd October.  

With Scout Store's site on schedule, it’s almost time to move next door to demolish 77 Marlborough Road, the former Print Fragrancing site.

LBP is pleased to announce that planning permission has been granted for Industrial IT Systems who are currently based in Fishersgate, to build their new 8,137sqft headquarters right next door to Scout Store. The development will include a rear onsite car park increasing the current parking provision from 5 spaces to 11, with disabled parking and cycle racks.

Industrial IT Systems help businesses and organisations connect, control and communicate with technology in places where standard office IT equipment may not be reliable enough. i.e. hospitals, data centres and substations. They also provide technical advice, configuration, integration and ongoing support rather than simply selling equipment.

To find out more about Industrial IT Systems please click here 

LBP has been working with Industrial IT Systems to help bring this development forward so we can welcome our new addition to the LBP Business Community. LBP are pleased to say that the Rabbit Group has also been commissioned to undertake these demolition works.

Hoardings have now been erected around the site at 77 Marlborough Road, and the draft demolition schedule has been prepared, which will be much quicker, with a lot less dust than the major Scout Store demolition programme:

Demolition works are currently due to commence on 14^th September once the licenced removal of all asbestos materials has safely taken place and all the site services have been fully disconnected.  

This shorter demolish programme is due to last three weeks:

Week 1

• Removal of asbestos roof (from within the building using a tower)
• Strip out works

Week 2

• Delivery of machine to site & commence demolition works

Week 3

• Breaking up slab & loading of all waste materials off site

LBP will keep you updated on progress and asks that you please bear with us as there will be a bit of dust during these works. Thank you.

Last Tuesday, two men in a white van entered the Council’s Yard at 10:38am and tried to load their van with metal garden furniture. Council staff were very quick to challenge this behaviour but were faced with the men trying to assure them, they had permission to remove the metal items. Knowing this not to be the case, the staff prevented them from loading the metal, escorted the men back into their van and out of the yard, quickly locking the gates behind them.

This action alone is to be commended, but what Jake thankfully did next helped another business in Peter Road.

As soon as the gates were locked, Jake called LBP to report the incident, which enabled LBP to immediately go to Peter Road to investigate where the van went next. Due to Jake’s quick actions, LBP met the van as it was exiting another yard in Peter Road, quickly followed by Mark Pidd, Eschmann Technologies’ Site Services Co-Ordinator.

LBP and Mark stopped the van and explained that the metal in their van were removed without permission and needed to be immediately returned to the yard. The van was then forced to reverse, and the two men unloaded the metal.

We are so lucky to have such a supportive business community as the moment the incident occurred people came from everywhere to make sure the metal was returned and everyone was kept safe. LBP would like to thank everyone involved for their time and support; it was much appreciated!

LBP ensured that facial and van registration photographs were taken at the scheme and has since downloaded all the relevant LBP CCTV footage to share with the Police.

This incident is believed to be linked to another theft on 9^th July and LBP is working with the Police to share all the information gathered, as there has been a spate of metal thefts in the area.

Please can you update your staff to be extra vigilant as the price of metal is currently high and these men tried to very convincingly state they had permission to remove the metal, but that was not the case.

Thank you.

What a change!

Rabbit Group have been working hard to demolish Scout Store's old site at 75 Marlborough Road. It no longer looks like the photo above.

Thank you to everyone for understanding that demolition works unfortunately create a lot of dust. Rabbit have been using dust suppression measures to try to keep the dust to a minimum, but LBP appreciates there has been a dust cloud which has settled on surrounding vehicles, especially when the office block at the front of the site was taken down. 

In the photos below you can see the dust suppression sprays in operation during this work. 

The office block is no longer there, and works are progressing well with the rest of the site. 

There has been a slight amendment to the schedule as additional asbestos was discovered in the columns supporting the warehouse roof. These have now been wrapped in green plastic to enable safe removal, and the additional two-week notification period is about to allow this asbestos removal to start, but this can't be rushed as clear guidelines will be followed.

Once the additional asbestos has been removed, the steel columns will be cut to enable the warehouse roof to be safely lowered, ensuring it stays on its current footprint and does not impact the Quoin Estate Units, residents to the rear, or Marlborough Road.

As a result of the additional asbestos works, the onsite concrete crushing is now expected to commence mid-September for two weeks.

The demolition crew are aiming to be off site by 2nd October but are hoping they may make up time once the asbestos is cleared, so they can exit earlier if possible.

Please see the photos below to give you a better view of what's currently going on behind the safety hoardings and the image of what will come next.

Please contact LBP is you have any queries by clicking here

Thank you for your understanding and patience during these works.

At 9.38am on Tuesday, LBP was called to an incident in Marlborough Road just outside Lancing Fire Station.

A driver travelling around the one-way system found the car was on fire and shouted out the window as he passed Shoreham Vehicle Auctions, where staff immediately called 999. The driver then managed to make it to Lancing Fire Station, avoiding any other vehicles from catching fire. 

We are very lucky to have Lancing Fire Station on the park as West Sussex Fire & Rescue Services have been our saviours on many occasions. From saving a business in Winston Business Centre when their yard caught fire, to saving a unit in Chartwell Road that houses industrial chemicals, when a motorhome caught fire next to it in Elm Grove. That's just to mention two occasions where West Sussex Fire & Rescue Services have skilfully controlled fires, avoiding injury and saving commercial buildings.

Lancing Fire Station is a Reserve Station and therefore it's not constantly manned. On Tuesday, we were luckily there were trained staff on site, as the 999 call enabled them to immediately helped to extinguish the blaze. The call also ensured that Worthing Fire Station could quickly deploy their truck, which arrived within 5 minutes to fully cool the car and prevent the fire from reigniting. 

In these cases, the road beneath the engine is normally badly damaged, but due to Lancing's quick action, the new road surface has very minor damage, which the insurance is now thankfully addressing.

LBP would like to thank the driver for his quick reactions, Shoreham Vehicle Auctions staff for immediately ringing 999 and Rabbit staff for also alerting LBP, as that enable LBP to help clear the road to allow access for Worthing's Fire Truck to reach the scene quickly.

LBP would also to thank everyone who quickly moved their vehicles and waited patiently whilst the incident was addressed. 

It goes without saying that LBP would also like to thank our talented local Fire Services who help keep the park safe, for which we are very grateful.

Last weekend saw England (Shoreham Vehicle Auctions) come third in a convincing win against France (UK Pick & Pack) 6-4 , but the real showstopper for LBP was Spain's win against Argentina in the World Cup Final. Why?

Grant from Wheatley's Accident Repair Centre was crossing his fingers for Argentina, whilst watching the match in Paris after completing his annual Charity Cycle Ride, but to no avail as Spain won in extra time.

With Spain's win, the £1,000 prize went to ADDEV Parafix and it's what they did next that was the showstopper of the tournament!

LBP would like to thank all the companies who kindly supported the 2026 LBP Charity World Cup Draw as it raised £200 for Beehive Care, LBP’s Charity of the Year.

ADDEV Parafix was awarded the crown and in true royal style they said:             

‘ADDEV Parafix is delighted to have been selected as the winner of the Lancing Business Park Charity World Cup Draw, with Spain defeating Argentina 1-0 in the final.

Although we were all proudly supporting our England team throughout the tournament, we are delighted that Spain’s win has resulted in ADDEV Parafix winning the £1,000 prize as this provided a wonderful opportunity.

The competition, organised to raise funds for Lancing Business Park’s Charity of the Year, Beehive Care, initially raised a £200 charity contribution.  ADDEV Parafix have decided to transform this into a fantastic £1,200 donation, by also donating our prize to this worthwhile local cause.

We are proud that our winning team will contribute towards supporting Beehive Care’s important work in the local community, helping to fund the charity’s dementia care services and the valuable support they provide to individuals and families affected by dementia.

We would like to thank Lancing Business Park for organising this enjoyable fundraising initiative and for bringing businesses together in support of such a meaningful cause.

Congratulations to Beehive Care and thank you for the incredible work you do to support the local community.’

To see Beehive Care’s very grateful response please click below:

Please click below for the Semi-Final results:

For results from the previous rounds please click here