And it’s all thanks to a fruitful partnership between Adur District Council and local businesses.
Lancing business ColourFull Kitchens kick-started the project to revitalise the public planters by painting some in the village for just the cost of the paint. They were later contracted to renovate and paint further planters at Crabtree Parade and Cokeham Parade.
Another local business, CJS Landscapes then stepped into the breach in early summer to take up the planting and maintenance when the original contractor dropped out.
Shabbir Jafferali, who has been running Wilmshurst Pharmacy on Crabtree Parade for the last 39 years, says the planters have been a real boost to the area.
Two local councillors, Carol Albury and Ann Bridges, had been planting and watering public planters in the area for the last four years, but money made available by the Council meant that the old planters could be professionally renovated and planted.