It’s your money they’re (wasting) spending so why won’t they tell us how much?

It’s your money they’re (wasting) spending so why won’t they tell us how much?

May 16, 2025July 17, 2025

How would you feel living next door to a derelict house that the owners abandoned 16 years ago?

The house in question is at 39 Alma Terrace in Silverhill. It is overgrown, it’s covered in scaffolding that neighbours have been told is being paid for by Hastings Borough Council, but the council has no record of that, yet on a regular basis the scaffolding company come out to inspect the safety of the scaffold so someone must be footing the bill and it isn’t the owners or the neighbours.

This week Hastings Council announced thet Councillor Jo Walker, a member of the cabinet, will have responsibility for ‘enforcement’ added to her brief. Let’s hope that sees things change in Hastings where enforcement has been woeful for far too long.

In today’s latest edition of Hastings Five in 5 we discuss the Alma Terrace situation and ask questions about how much the work at the old Battle Road arches site has cost our council – and OUR council only has YOUR money to spend.

Abandoned and overgrown, the house at 39 Alma Terrace where no one has lived for getting on for 20 years and where neighbours have at times had to endure rats getting in to thier homes.

The giant Meccano set where the Battle Road arches used to ‘stand’. The council says it will not reveal the cost of the works there as that information is ‘exempt’.

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