Beach huts and chalets

How to rent or buy a beach hut or chalet by the seafront.

Where our beach huts are

Council sites for beach huts are on Hove Promenade.

Licences

We grant licences for you to place a beach hut on a site. You can read an example licence with our terms and conditions.

The licence fee for 2025 to 2026 is £518.70 including VAT.

Paying your licence

You can pay your beach hut licence fee online through our secure server.

Go to our payments page and select 'CCT / BHCC invoice' from the left-hand menu. 

Follow the instructions to make your payment. 

Buying and selling beach huts

The sale of a beach hut is a private transaction. Find out about availability in the local press or estate agents.

If you sell your beach hut, we will charge you a transfer fee. Details of the transfer fee are set out in Clauses 4 and 5 of the licence.

Please note that:

  • we will not issue licences for multiple site ownership
  • applicants must be Brighton & Hove residents
  • beach hut owners must have their hut for at least 3 years before they can sell
  • beach huts are for recreational purposes and are not to be used for any trade business service or profession 

Process of transferring a beach hut

If you wish to transfer your beach hut, then you need to: 

  1. Fill out the transfer document. This will need to include the current beach hut owners’ details, the buyers’ details, the sale price and the beach hut number.
  2. Return the form by email to seafrontoffice@brighton-hove.gov.uk. An invoice will be raised for the transfer fee and sent to the Central Collections Team (CCT) for processing. This can take up to 10 days.
  3. You should then receive an invoice to pay. CCT will then confirm with the Seafront Office that the transfer fee has been paid.
  4. We will then send a new Beach Hut Licence to the new owners to sign and countersign. The transfer is then complete.

Download the application form  to transfer your beach hut

Beach hut owners may choose to use a solicitor or estate agent for security when selling their beach hut. The Seafront Office has no part in the transfer of the funds for the hut; we simply handle the transfer fee.

Construction specifications

There are specific rules for the construction and maintenance of your beach hut.

Please contact the Seafront Office for full construction specifications.

You can:

Doors can now be constructed from either panelling or tongue and groove.

Repairing and maintaining your beach hut

Beach hut owners are required, within the terms and conditions of their licences, to repair or replace in accordance with certain details. Read how to repair and maintain your beach hut.

Paint codes

There are specific rules for the painting of your beach hut.

  • Roof and upper sides: BS 4800 14 C35 Gloss
  • Plinth and lower sides: BS 4800 04 D45 Gloss

Doors can be any single solid colour or vertically striped in multiple colours.