HMRC’s Worthing Specialist Site formally opens

Teville Gate House, HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) most southern specialist site was formally opened today (1 November 2022), by Chief Finance Officer, Justin Holliday.

Teville Gate House in Worthing is one of 5 HMRC specialist sites located around the UK. Specialist sites accommodate HMRC employees where their work cannot be done elsewhere across the estate.

Adjacent to the train station, the Worthing Specialist Site is a state-of-the-art building which opened in May 2021. It’s modern and inclusive workspaces can accommodate around 800 people.

Justin Holliday unveiled the plaque at the opening in front of local representatives and dignitaries including MP for Worthing West, Sir Peter Bottomley MP.

Justin Holliday, HMRC’s Chief Finance Officer, said:

“I am delighted to formally open our Worthing Specialist Site at Teville Gate House.

“This development is an important part of HMRC’s transformation into a modern and digitally-advanced tax and customs authority. Its inclusive and flexible working environment has brought our staff together and will help to make it easier to deliver great services to our customers.”

The building is 6,438m² and accredited with an excellent BREEAM rating.

Teville Gate House won the 2022 British Council for Offices award for Best Corporate Workplace in the South of England and South Wales region.

Notes to Editors

1. Teville Gate House is a key location for roles in corporate services including Finance, HR Shared Services, Digital teams and colleagues from Debt Management.
2. HMRC’s locations strategy, announced in 2015, is key to enabling its wider transformation. It also supports the UK Government’s Places for Growth Programme to promote growth and jobs, by creating opportunities and career paths in towns and cities across the UK.
3. HMRC’s vision is to be a trusted, modern tax and customs department. HMRC’s Locations Strategy is supporting this by delivering and maintaining modern inclusive, flexible environments, improved technology enabling HMRC to work differently, in a smarter way. It will be based in a network of regional centres serving every country and region of the UK. HMRC opened its first regional centre in Croydon in 2017.
4. Moving to regional centres and specialist sites will save around £300 million cumulatively up to financial year 2025 to 2026 and will deliver annual cash savings of £74 million in financial year 2025 to 2026 rising to around £90m from 2028 to 2029.
5. HMRC’s regional centre locations are: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Portsmouth and Stratford.
6. HMRC’s specialist sites are where certain work cannot be done elsewhere in its estate. The locations are: Dover, Gartcosh, Ipswich, Telford and Worthing.
7. Follow HMRC’s Press Office on Twitter @HMRCpressoffice