Arun is a local government district in West Sussex

West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex , Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex has been divided into East and West since the 12th century, and obtained separate county councils in 1888, but it remained a single ceremonial county until 1974 and the coming...

, England

England

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. It contains the towns of Arundel

Arundel

Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to...

, Bognor Regis

Bognor Regis

Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the...

 and Littlehampton

Littlehampton

Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester....

, and takes its name from the River Arun

River Arun

The Arun is a river in the English county of West Sussex. Its source is a series of small streams in the St Leonard's Forest area, to the east of Horsham...

, which runs through the centre of the district.

History

Arun was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972

Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974....

, merging the Urban District

Urban district

In the England, Wales and Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected Urban District Council , which shared local government responsibilities with a county council....

s of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, the municipal borough

Municipal borough

Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002...

 of Arundel and parts of Chichester

Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, South-East England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Roman past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings...

 and Worthing

Worthing

Worthing is a large seaside town with borough status in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, forming part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester...

 Rural District

Rural district

Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the administrative counties.-England and Wales:In England...

s.

Governance

Arun District Council is a non-metropolitan district council formed of 56 councillors from across the following 26 wards:

Ward	Councillors
Aldwick East	2
Aldwick West	2
Angmering	3
Arundel	2
Barnham	3
Beach (Littlehampton)	2
Bersted	3
Brookfield (Littlehampton)	2
East Preston with Kingston	3
Felpham East	2
Felpham West	2
Ferring	2
Findon	1
Ham (Littlehampton)	2
Hotham (Bognor Regis)	2
Marine (Bognor Regis)	2
Middleton-on-Sea	2
Orchard (Bognor Regis)	2
Pagham & Rose Green	3
Pevensey (Bognor Regis)	2
River (Littlehampton)	2
Rustington East	2
Rustington West	3
Walberton	1
Wick with Toddington (Littlehampton)	2
Yapton	2

The council has been under the control of the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 since its first election in 1973. The last elections to the council

Arun Council election, 2011

Elections to Arun Council were held on Thursday 5 May 2011 to elect members to the council.The incumbent Conservative administration won an 11th election in a row, capitalising on a poor national performance by the Liberal Democrats by gaining five of their seats - Bognor Reigs Hotham, Bognor Reigs...

 were held on 5 May 2011, the results of which are shown below:
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Arun District Council Election Results 2011
	Party	Seats
Conservatives Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...	48
Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...	4
Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...	3
Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	1

Civil Parishes

The following 31 civil parishes are located within the district:

Parish	Type	Area (Hectare)	Population (2001)	Pop Density /Hectare
Aldingbourne Aldingbourne Aldingbourne is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 3,612 . It is about five miles north of Bognor Regis and six miles east of Chichester....	Parish Council	1253	3612	2.88
Aldwick Aldwick Aldwick is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area around Bognor Regis, to the west of the town. The parish includes Rose Green and occupies an area of , and has a population of 10,884 persons.It became, briefly, the focus of the British Empire...	Parish Council	425	10884	25.61
Angmering Angmering Angmering is a large village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is located approximately two miles north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are about four miles to the east and west respectively.Angmering railway station is miles away...	Parish Council	1782	5639	3.16
Arundel Arundel Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to...	Town Council	1227	3408	2.78
Barnham Barnham, West Sussex Barnham is a large village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, about five miles north of Bognor Regis. The civil parish had a population of 1,270 persons according to the 1991 census, although the adjacent area of 'West Barnham' adds a further 3,107 to the total...	Parish Council	373	1372	3.68
Bersted Bersted Bersted is a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 8,443. It is made up mainly of two villages, North Bersted and Shripney....	Parish Council	713	8443	11.85
Bognor Regis Bognor Regis Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the...	Town Council	486	22555	46.44
Burpham Burpham Burpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The village is on an arm of the River Arun slightly less than northeast of Arundel.The civil parish has an area of...	Parish Meeting	1245	193	0.15
Clapham Clapham, West Sussex Clapham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The parish has a population of 317 in an area of . It lies three miles north of Angmering on the A280 road and north of the A27 crossroads...	Parish Council	515	317	0.62
Climping Climping Clymping is a civil parish, located around the hamlet of Climping in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The parish also contains the coastal hamlet of Atherington. It is located three miles west of Littlehampton, just north of the A259 road...	Parish Council	691	600	0.87
East Preston East Preston, West Sussex East Preston is a village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. It lies roughly half way between Littlehampton and Worthing...	Parish Council	241	5919	24.53
Eastergate Eastergate Eastergate is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located five miles east of Chichester...	Parish Council	371	3107	8.39
Felpham Felpham Felpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. Although sometimes considered part of the greater Bognor Regis habitation it is a village and civil parish in its own right, having an area of 4.26 km² with a population of 9611 people and still growing .The...	Parish Council	426	9611	24.53
Ferring Ferring Ferring is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is part of the built-up area of Worthing and is located on the A259 road west of the town. The parish has a land area of 430.6 hectares...	Parish Council	431	4361	10.13
Findon Findon, West Sussex Findon is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, four miles north of Worthing. The parish has an area of 16.41 km² and a population of 1848 persons ....	Parish Council	1614	1848	1.14
Ford Ford, West Sussex Ford is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located 3 km to the south-west of Arundel...	Parish Council	415	1358	3.27
Houghton Houghton, West Sussex Houghton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the River Arun five kilometres to the north of Arundel...	Parish Meeting	743	76	0.10
Kingston Kingston by Ferring Kingston by Ferring, usually known simply as Kingston, is a small civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It comprises the three settlements of East and West Kingston, and Kingston Gorse and is located between Ferring and East Preston civil parishes, three miles to the west of ...	Parish Council	229	702	3.07
Littlehampton Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester....	Town Council	1135	25593	22.55
Lyminster Lyminster Lyminster is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the outskirts of the built-up area of Littlehampton, two miles north of the town centre. The civil parish covers an area of and has a population of 351 persons...	Parish Council	587	351	0.60
Madehurst Madehurst Madehurst is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located four miles to the north-west of Arundel, to the west of the A29 road. The civil parish covers an area of 765.96ha and has a population of 105 persons .The village of Madehurst is situated...	Parish Meeting	766	105	0.14
Middleton-on-Sea Middleton-on-Sea Middleton-on-Sea is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, and is part of the built-up area of Bognor Regis, lying to the east of the town and neighbouring Felpham...	Parish Council	412	5105	12.41
Pagham Pagham Pagham is a coastal village and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of around 5,500.-Geography:The village comprises three main areas:*Pagham Beach, coastal area, developed in the early 20th Century,...	Parish Council	1059	5729	5.41
Patching Patching Patching is a small village and civil parish that lies amidst the fields and woods of the southern slopes of the South Downs in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It has a history going back to before the Domesday survey of 1087. It is located four miles to the east of Arundel, to the...	Parish Council	846	230	0.27
Poling	Parish Meeting	320	173	0.54
Rustington Rustington Rustington is a seaside resort and civil parish near Littlehampton in West Sussex. Rustington is centrally situated on the West Sussex coast almost midway between the cathedral city of Chichester and Brighton. For local government purposes, it forms part of the Arun district of the administrative...	Parish Council	432	13210	30.60
Slindon Slindon Slindon is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, nestling in woodlands on the southern edge of the South Downs. Slindon lies approximately seven miles north-east of Chichester...	Parish Council	1286	590	0.46
South Stoke South Stoke, West Sussex South Stoke is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located two miles to the north of Arundel, and is situated on the west bank of the River Arun on the edge of Arundel Park. It is reached by road from Arundel. A footpath leads to North Stoke on the...	Parish Meeting	535	44	0.08
Walberton Walberton Walberton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located five miles to the north-west of Littlehampton, and is situated south of the A27 road. Located on the southernmost slopes of the South Downs the civil parish covers an area of and has a population...	Parish Council	1044	1941	1.86
Warningcamp Warningcamp Warningcamp is a small village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located to the north-east of Arundel, on the east bank of the River Arun. The civil parish covers an area of and has a population of 161 persons ....	Parish Meeting	378	161	0.43
Yapton Yapton Yapton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is three miles to the north-west of Bognor Regis at the intersection of the B2132 and B2233 roads...	Parish Council	791	3522	4.46
Arun	Total	22770	140759	6.18

Geography

Arun District occupies the central southern area of West Sussex, and is bordered by Chichester District

Chichester (district)

Chichester is a largely rural local government district in West Sussex, England. Its council is based in the city of Chichester.-History:The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the municipal borough of Chichester and the Rural Districts of...

 to the west, Horsham District

Horsham (district)

Horsham is a local government district in West Sussex, England. Its council is based in Horsham. The district borders those of Crawley, Mid Sussex, Mole Valley, Chichester, Arun and Adur....

 to the north and Worthing borough

Worthing

Worthing is a large seaside town with borough status in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, forming part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester...

 and Adur District to the east. The district is bisected by the River Arun

River Arun

The Arun is a river in the English county of West Sussex. Its source is a series of small streams in the St Leonard's Forest area, to the east of Horsham...

 , and is divided between a broad rural area in the north of the district that contains Arundel and a host of small villages, part of which sits within the South Downs National Park

South Downs National Park

The South Downs National Park is England's newest National Park, having become fully operational on 1 April 2011. The park, covering an area of in southern England, stretches for from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex...

, and an urban coastal strip that includes Bognor Regis and Littlehampton.

Economy

Although set within the typically prosperous county of West Sussex, much of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton are ranked amongst the 20% most deprived areas in the UK as a whole on the Index of Multiple Deprivation

Index of Multiple Deprivation

The Indices of deprivation 2004 is a Deprivation index at the small area level, created by the British Department for Communities and Local Government....

.
The district contains a large tourism sector, attracting visitors to the South Downs in the north, and the beaches of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton in the south, the latter of which holds a prestigious Blue Flag Award

Blue Flag beach

The Blue Flag is a certification by the Foundation for Environmental Education that a beach or marina meets its stringent standards.The Blue Flag is a trademark owned by FEE which is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation consisting of 65 organisations in 60 member countries in Europe,...

. Consequently, the district suffers from high amounts of seasonal employment, with the Office for National Statistics

Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.- Overview :...

 estimating that nearly 11% of the population of Arun is employed in the tourism sector, compared to 8% nationally, whilst 28% of people work in the distribution, hotels and restaurants sector, compared to just 23% nationally. Arun also has a higher number of public sector workers than either the regional or national average, and a significantly smaller finance and IT sector than the rest of the South East and wider UK.

Awards

In 2008, the district council won an Ashden Award for their work on energy efficiency.

Football Clubs

• Arundel F.C.
  Arundel F.C.
  Arundel F.C. are a football club based in Arundel, England, established in 1889 and joined the Sussex County Football League in 1949.They have won the County League Division 1 title 3 times in their history, most recently in 1986-87....
  
  
• Bognor Regis Town F.C.
  Bognor Regis Town F.C.
  Bognor Regis Town Football Club is an English football club based in Bognor Regis, West Sussex. The club are currently members of Isthmian League Division One South and play at Nyewood Lane.-History:...
  
  
• Clymping F.C.
  Clymping F.C.
  Clymping F.C. are members of Sussex County League Division Three. They play in Clymping, near Littlehampton. They joined the County League in Division Three in 2008 and were promoted into Division Two at the first attempt...
  
  
• East Preston F.C.
  East Preston F.C.
  East Preston F.C. is a football club based in East Preston, near Littlehampton, West Sussex, England. They were established in 1947 and were founding members of the Sussex County League Division Three in 1983. For the 2011–12 season, they are members of the Sussex County League Division...
  
  
• Littlehampton Town F.C.
  Littlehampton Town F.C.
  Littlehampton Town F.C. is a football club based in Littlehampton, England. It was established in 1896 and joined the Sussex County League in 1928. In the 1990–91 season, they reached the 1st round of the FA Cup. For the 2011–12 season, they are members of the Sussex County League Division...
  
  
• Pagham F.C.
  Pagham F.C.
  Pagham F.C. is a football club based in Pagham, near Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England. They were formed in 1903, and joined Division Two of the Sussex County League in 1970/71, finishing third in their first three seasons....
  
  
• Rustington F.C.
  Rustington F.C.
  Rustington F.C. is an English football club based in Rustington, West Sussex. The club are currently members of Division Two of the Sussex County League and play at the Recreation Ground.-History:...
  
  
• Wick F.C.
  Wick F.C.
  Wick F.C. is a football club based in Wick. near Littlehampton, England. They joined the Sussex County League Division Two in 1964. In the 1998-99 season, they reached the 4th round of the FA Vase. For the 2011-12 season, they are members of the Sussex County League Division Two....