A multi-storey car park needs millions of pounds to be spent on it to reopen.

Worthing Borough Council closed Grafton car park in May to carry out urgent investigation work because of concerns that its condition had visibly deteriorated suddenly.

The council brought in HOP Consulting, a specialist civil and structural engineering firm, and chartered surveyors MacConvilles to outline what could be done to make the car park, in Marine Parade, safe to reopen to the public.

The team from HOP have concluded that the most basic set of repairs and renovation required to make the structure safe to use would cost an estimated £17.1m at least.

This does not include any work to the building’s lifts or drainage, which would also be needed. It also does not include the additional cost to the coun

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