Water and energy in Funtington
Figures last changed 20 October 2026. House prices for Funtington are on the main Funtington page.
On this page: How often does sewage spill near Funtington? · How clean is the water for swimming near Funtington? · How energy efficient are homes in Funtington?
How often does sewage spill near Funtington?
The two monitored storm overflows within 1.5 km of a Funtington postcode spilled 11 times in 2025, for 64 hours in all, on the water companies' returns to the Environment Agency. The busiest was the Main Road Fishbourne storm overflow, which empties into a stream that runs into Chichester Harbour: 8 spills and 46 hours. In 2024, the monitored overflows within 1.5 km of a Funtington postcode spilled 31 times, for 265 hours. The Environment Agency put much of the fall across England down to an unusually dry 2025 after a particularly wet 2024. 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) · Environment Agency: fewer and shorter storm overflow spills in 2025.
How clean is the water for swimming near Funtington?
Funtington has no designated bathing water of its own. The nearest beach the Agency does rate is West Wittering, a median 10.8 km from Funtington's postcodes in a straight line, rated Excellent for 2025; next is Bracklesham Bay, 11.6 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 Funtington?
Less efficient than the area as a whole, on their energy performance certificates. Of the 480 homes in Funtington with a certificate on the government register, 29% are rated C or better, against 50% across the Chichester council area; the most common rating is D. Mains gas heats 38% of the 480 whose main fuel is recorded, and oil 33%. 39 have a heat pump. Of the 440 whose certificate records it, 56% have no mains gas connection, so they are off the gas grid; 40 certificates do not say. 6% have solar panels, and 16 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 2020.
Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (GOV.UK Get energy performance of buildings data).
Figures cover 86 postcodes in Funtington. How these figures are made.