Fresh photographs display ongoing efforts to enhance sea defences in a coastal town.

The initiative forms part of the Worthing Capital Maintenance Coastal Defence Project currently being executed along the Worthing seafront.

The scheme spans seven zones and is presently concentrating on the stretch between Denton Gardens and The Esplanade.

Recently published photographs reveal workers fitting additional pile extensions and substituting absent timber boards to mend and reinforce the groynes.

The Environment Agency is directing this multi-million pound initiative alongside Worthing Borough Council to improve flood defences and extend the lifespan of the wooden groynes in the vicinity.

The programme intends to protect residential and commercial properties from Seaview Road on the western side to Brooklands in Lancing.

Builders are presently engaged between Denton Gardens and The Esplanade.

The existing groynes should see their operational life prolonged by as much as a decade while a more enduring solution is developed.

This will be succeeded by twelve months of observation and an evaluation of shingle replenishment requirements, set to commence in the autumn of this year.

In a statement last month, the council reported that most repairs between the Lido and Seaview Road have already been finished.

The repair works coincide with recent announcements that Worthing and Adur would obtain £4 million in central government funding to assist with upgrading flood defences.

Almost £1.8 million will be directed toward the Capital Maintenance Project.

Adur will secure £2.1 million to support enhancements to Shoreham and Lancing’s coastal defences, encompassing the Western Harbour Arm Flood Defence and the Shoreham Adur Tidal Walls scheme.

Adur District Council is also presently collaborating with Shoreham Port Authority and Brighton and Hove City Council to deliver the Brighton Marina to River Adur Coastal Scheme, with improvement works along Southwick Beach planned for 2030.