Making a success of Hastings Pier is a priority for its owner Sheikh Abid Gulzar. Speaking this week about why he has put two of his Eastbourne hotels up for sale Mr Gulzar says: “Eastbourne Pier is an amazing success… buying Hastings Pier represents a massive challenge to me and now I am determined to […]
Hastings has today been declared a ‘high streets heritage zone’ putting it in line to benefit from a share of nearly £100 million from Historic England to boost local shops. Local MP Amber Rudd says she has consistently fought to ensure that local high streets in her constituency get the funding they need. She told […]
Borrowing around £50 million over the last five years has underpinned Hastings Borough Council’s commercial property acquisition programme. Many local people still don’t realise that their council owns the site in Sedlescombe Road North where Pets at Home and Dunelm are based and also owns the T.K. Max site on Bexhill Road. The council has […]
The search is on again to find the best small shops in the UK and local MP Amber Rudd says she hopes lots of local traders will enter. …get your entry in by Monday at www.bestsmallshops.co.uk The Best Small Shops Competition celebrates the creativity of small shops and the central role they play in their community […]
Leading Labour councillor Andy Batsford says the town’s borough council is a “bold interventionist council determined to improve the lives of our residents.” He was talking after Hastings Borough Council (HBC) carried out a review os a 16 year programme of renewal work in central St Leonards. The £32 million public/private investment has been focussed on […]
It was in 1926 that the Hastings Corporation advertised for an engineer to ‘rebuild Hastings’ and the man they appointed was Sidney Little who would go on to leave a lasting mark on the town. The regeneration of Hastings was the subject of a ‘short history’ last month written by Council leader and Labour’s prospective parliamentary […]
It’s all looking positive for community plans to reopen Ore library. Campaigners were able to get inside the building yesterday and local councillor Heather Bishop says the well stocked library is in great condition and could reopen tomorrow. At the same time they were able to chat to officials from East Sussex County Council (ESCC) […]
Table Tennis skills are not the first thing you associate with Hastings MP Amber Rudd but she put her ping-pong talents in display when she visited a new business and creative centre in St Leonards. Ms Rudd was guest of honour at the launch of the Wise Group’s new new business space at Castleham Industrial Centre. […]
Solar panels on the roof of the Ore Valley Campus of East Sussex College will save over £5,000 a year on energy costs. Hastings MP Amber Rudd is encouraging more schools and businesses to copy the example set by Ore Valley which at one stage this month was generating 76 per cent of its energy […]
