Julia Hilton, secretary of the Hastings Green Party has been writing a regular column for Hastings In Focus since September. Earlier in the year Julia was one of the candidates who stood for election to Hastings Borough Council under the Green Party banner, although the party failed to win any seats they made an impact on […]
Last week Sir David Attenborough spoke at the UN Climate Change Summit in Katowice as the representative of the world’s people and warned that climate change is the greatest threat to humanity and could lead to the collapse of civilisations. Four former presidents of the annual UN climate talks warned the ‘world is at a […]
On October 8th the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) warned that ‘rapid, far-reaching, and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ will be required in order to limit global temperature to 1.5oC above preindustrial levels; and that we have only 12 years in which we can realistically accomplish this. Even half a degree above that […]
Does Hastings have what it takes to be a UNESCO world heritage site? Hastings is at the centre of a richly historic area, with a heritage of enormous potential, worthy of conservation. The first harbour development proposal might have been withdrawn but there is still a threat of a revised development coming forward and no […]
Do you know there are big plans afoot for our town centre and the White Rock area? The council is consulting on something called the Area Action Plan which sets out aspirations for the area from St Mary’s Convent in the west, and across the town centre as far as Pelham Place. People have until […]
