Local Information.

EMERGENCIES

  • Ambulance: Sussex Ambulance NHS Trust administration - 01273 489444.
  • Coastguard: 02392 552100.
  • Crime taking place, or you think it is about to: Ring 999 .
  • Crimestoppers - 0800 555 111.
  • Fire Brigade headquarters - 01243 786211.
  • Gas: Transco - 0800 111 999.
  • Hospitals:
  • Bognor War Memorial - 01243 865418.
  • King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst - 01730 812341.
  • St Richard's, Chichester - 01243 788122.
  • The Nuffield - 01243 753041.
  • Sussex Police: Non emergency - 0845 60 70 999.
  • Portsmouth Water (supply) - 023 924 77 999.
  • Samaritans: 01243 826333.
  • Southern Electric - (emergency) - 0845 770 80 90.
  • Water: Southern Water (drainage) - 0845 278 0845.

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COUNCIL SERVICES AND INFORMATION

  • General Enquiries: West Sussex County Council - 01243 777100.
  • Chichester District Council - 01243 785166.
  • Abandoned vehicles: - 01243 534610, or 01243 785166
  • Amenity sites - 01243 777595.
  • Births, marriages and deaths (registration) - 01243 782723.
  • Bus enquiries - 0845 121 0170.
  • Car parks: Chichester - 01243 534626.
  • Chichester Community Transport - 01243 778688.
  • Child care: 01243 777807.
  • Clinical Waste - 01243 534610.
  • Coastal Defence: Chichester - 01243 785166, extn 4350.
  • Community safety: 01243 520347, or 01243 784439 or 0845 60 70 999.
  • Community transport-
  • Chichester Community Transport - 01243 816616
  • Contact 88 - 01243 531988.
  • Consumer advice - Trading Standards - 01903 839700
  • Council Tax - 01243 785166.
  • Drug / Alcohol Team 01243 530919.
  • Donnington Parish Council 01243 781563.
  • Dustbins/refuse enquiries: Chichester - 01243 777595.
  • Ethnic Minorities Help Line - 0845 758649.
  • Environmental health & protection - 01243 534602.
  • Fax Preference Service - 0845 07 007 02.
  • Highways and transport enquiries: 01243 777273.
  • Highways area office - 01243 836900.
  • Housing (Martlet Homes) - 01243 788794.
  • Library: Chichester - 01243 777351.
  • Mail Preference Service - 0207 766410
  • Malicious Telephone Calls - 0800 661 441.
  • Noise pollution/nuisance - Chichester - 01243 785166.
  • Nuisance Calls advice line - 0800 661 441.
  • Pest control: Chichester - 01243 534604.
  • Planning queries and advice: Chichester - 01243 785166.
  • Pre-school education: - 01243 777807.
  • Record office: 01243 753600.
  • Recycling: 01243 534619.
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases - 01243 831607.
  • Social & caring services: Chichester/Midhurst - 01243 752999.
  • Telephone Preference Service - 0845 07 007 07.
  • Tourist information: Chichester - 01243 775888.
  • Waste disposal/management: 01243 777595.
  • Youth and community service: 01243 777210.

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OTHER USEFUL NUMBERS

  • Careers: West Sussex Careers Ltd - 01243 771666.
  • Chichester Community Health Council: 01243 781912.
  • Chichester Festival Theatre: 01243 781312.
  • Citizen's Advice Bureau: Chichester - 01243 784231.
  • Chichester City Council - 01243 788502.
  • Chichester Job Centre - 01243 224100,
  • Environment Agency: 0845 933 3111 (emergency) 0800 80 70 60.
  • Floodline - 0845 988 1188.
  • Fire non-emergencies: 01243 786211.
  • Health: West Sussex Health Authority - 01903 708400.
  • Healthpoint - 0800 665544.
  • Information Shop for Young People: 01243 839093.
  • Local government ombudsman: 0207 9153210.
  • Magistrates Court: Chichester - 01243 817000.
  • New Park Community Centre - 01243536840.
  • National Rail Enquiries - 0845 748 4950.
  • Nuisance Calls advice line 0800 661 441.
  • OFTEL - 020 7634 8700
  • Parklands Surgery Patient Participation Group - 01243 789907;
  • Road traffic: AA information line - 0836 401126 (calls charged at premium (rate).
  • RSPCA: 01403 264181.
  • Social Security Office -Chichester - 01243 812500; public enquiry line - 0207 7122171.
  • Stagecoach inquiry line - 01903 237661.
  • Sussex Downs Conservation Board: 01903 741234.

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HELPLINES

  • Age Concern: 01243 775588.
  • Alcoholics Anonymous: 0845 7697555.
  • Alzheimers Society: 01243 528479.
  • Careers Liaison Project: 01243 537011.
  • Chichester Community Careline - 01243 778688.
  • Chichester Community Transport - 01243 816616
  • Chichester and District Pastoral Counselling Service: 01243 531914.
  • Chichester Counselling Services: 01243 789200.
  • Children: Childline - 0800 1111;
  • Contact 88 - 01243 531988
  • Diabetes Information - 01243 603638.
  • Cruse bereavement care: 01243 530202.
  • Disability Benefits: 0845 712 3456.
  • Disability Information - 01243 585575.
  • Multiple Sclerosis Society:- 01243 574768.
  • NSPCC child protection helpline - 0800 800500.
  • Options Pregnancy Crisis Centre: 01243 784177.
  • Prayer Line: 01243 377331.
  • Relate: 01243 788935.
  • Samaritans: 08457 90 90 90
  • Victim Support: 01243 829089.

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