Water and energy in East Wittering and Bracklesham
Figures last changed 22 October 2026. House prices for East Wittering and Bracklesham are on the main East Wittering and Bracklesham page.
- Storm overflow spills
- None
- no monitored overflow within 1.5 km, 2025
- Nearest rated beach
- Excellent
- Bracklesham Bay, its own
- Rated C or better
- 58%
- of 2,080 homes with a certificate
- Off the gas grid
- 20%
- of homes, on their certificates
How often does sewage spill near East Wittering and Bracklesham?
Not from any monitored storm overflow close by: none lies within 1.5 km of an East Wittering and Bracklesham postcode, on the water companies' 2025 returns to the Environment Agency. The nearest, Bosham wastewater works, is 3.5 km away and spilled 22 times in 2025. A storm overflow lets diluted sewage out into a river or the sea when heavy rain overloads the sewers. The counts use the Agency's method, in which the first 12 hours of a spill count as one and each 24 hours after that as another.
Source: Environment Agency storm overflow annual returns (Event Duration Monitoring).
How clean is the water for swimming near East Wittering and Bracklesham?
East Wittering and Bracklesham has its own designated bathing water, Bracklesham Bay, rated Excellent by the Environment Agency for 2025. The next nearest is West Wittering, 3.9 km away and rated Excellent. A rating covers the last four summers of samples, not any one day, and new ratings come out each November.
How energy efficient are homes in East Wittering and Bracklesham?
Better than the area as a whole, on their energy performance certificates. Of the 2,080 homes in East Wittering and Bracklesham with a certificate on the government register, 58% are rated C or better, against 50% across the Chichester council area; the most common rating is C. Mains gas heats 75% of the 2,080 whose main fuel is recorded, and electricity 20%. 42 have a heat pump. Of the 2,018 whose certificate records it, only 20% have no mains gas connection; 62 certificates do not say. 5% have solar panels, and 25 have solar water heating. A certificate is only made when a home is sold, let or built, so homes that rarely change hands are missing, and an old one shows a home as it was then. Each home's latest certificate is used: issued between 2008 and 2026, half of them since 2019.
Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (GOV.UK Get energy performance of buildings data).
Water and energy in nearby places
- West Wittering: No monitored storm overflow lies within 1.5 km of a West Wittering postcode, on the 2025 returns.
- West Itchenor: One monitored storm overflow within 1.5 km spilled 22 times in 2025, for 221 hours.
- Birdham: No monitored storm overflow lies within 1.5 km of a Birdham postcode, on the 2025 returns.
- Bosham: Four monitored storm overflows within 1.5 km spilled 36 times in 2025, for 293 hours.
Figures cover 149 postcodes in East Wittering and Bracklesham. How these figures are made.