Water and energy in West Wittering
Figures last changed 22 October 2026. House prices for West Wittering are on the main West Wittering page.
- Storm overflow spills
- None
- no monitored overflow within 1.5 km, 2025
- Nearest rated beach
- Excellent
- West Wittering, its own
- Rated C or better
- 42%
- of 1,285 homes with a certificate
- Off the gas grid
- 19%
- of homes, on their certificates
How often does sewage spill near West Wittering?
Not from any monitored storm overflow close by: none lies within 1.5 km of a West Wittering postcode, on the water companies' 2025 returns to the Environment Agency. The nearest, Bosham wastewater works, is 2.4 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 West Wittering?
West Wittering's beach is a designated bathing water, rated Excellent by the Environment Agency for 2025. The next nearest is Bracklesham Bay, 2.5 km away and rated Excellent. Chichester Harbour itself is not a designated bathing water, so the Agency does not test the water inside it. 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 West Wittering?
Less efficient than the area as a whole, on their energy performance certificates. Of the 1,285 homes in West Wittering with a certificate on the government register, 42% are rated C or better, against 50% across the Chichester council area; the most common rating is D. Mains gas heats 75% of the 1,285 whose main fuel is recorded, and electricity 20%. 66 have a heat pump. Of the 1,233 whose certificate records it, only 19% have no mains gas connection; 52 certificates do not say. 5% have solar panels, and 39 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 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.
- Chidham and Hambrook: Four monitored storm overflows within 1.5 km spilled 27 times in 2025, for 239 hours.
- Bosham: Four monitored storm overflows within 1.5 km spilled 36 times in 2025, for 293 hours.
Figures cover 98 postcodes in West Wittering. How these figures are made.