How to rent or buy a beach hut or chalet by the seafront.
Council sites for beach huts are on Hove Promenade.
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 2024 to 2025 is £503.60 including VAT.
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.
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:
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.
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.
There are specific rules for the painting of your beach hut.
Doors can be any single solid colour or vertically striped in multiple colours.
Beach chalets are located in five places along the coast in Brighton & Hove.
Most of the chalets are of brick construction and there is access to a water standpipe at each location. Electricity and water are provided within the Hove chalets.
There are 14 new composite zero-maintenance chalets on Saltdean Undercliff. Electricity is provided within these chalets.
The chalets are owned by the council and let by way of a licence agreement. Tenants are responsible for payment of national non-domestic rates.
The waiting lists are currently closed.
The licence agreement is for a fixed 5 year period. The Licence Fee is reviewed annually on 1 April.
Beach chalet charges for 2024 to 2025 are listed below and include VAT.
Go to our payments page and select 'beach hut/chalet rents' from the drop-down list. Then follow the instructions to make your payment.