Registered housing provider Worthing Homes has submitted plans to turn Skywaves House, in Ivy Arch Road, into 21 temporary accommodation flats.
The building is vacant and was last used by Feba, a Christian media company.
It would be demolished to make way for a new three-storey building with office space which would be used by employees of the council and a local homeless charity.
If the plans are approved, Worthing Homes would partner with Turning Tides to provide accommodation.
Between 2020 and 2021 the charity had 459 new clients presenting as homeless.
Akin Akinyebo, head of housing at Adur and Worthing Councils, says the situation ‘has become worse’ over the last 18 months with 176 people currently in temporary accommodation.
He said the flats would ‘support the…
