Chichester’s walled centre is a conservation area with many listed buildings, while the estates around the ring road are routine. The Manhood peninsula, Selsey and Bognor Regis are flat and full of bungalows, which suit a modest system for a household at home in the day. Worthing, Lancing and Shoreham mix 1930s semis with seafront flats, and salt air shapes the choice of fixings near the sea. Crawley is a post-war new town with uniform estate roofs, while Horsham, Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath have large new-build areas.
Planning goes through Chichester, Arun, Worthing, Adur, Horsham, Crawley or Mid Sussex councils. The villages north of the A27 and across the Downs are inside the South Downs National Park, which has its own planning authority. Chichester Harbour and the High Weald are National Landscapes. UK Power Networks is the network operator for most of the county. Chichester is around 90 minutes from Ferndown, and Crawley and Mid Sussex are further, so the first survey there is usually a video call. Brighton and Hove are covered too, on the East Sussex page.