It’s a year since hundreds of local people turned out on wet and windy Saturday to protest against Hastings Borough Council’s plans to develop the old bathing pool site. A year on we still seem to be in the dark about what is going to happen to the site and when. This week Bryan Fisher, […]
Local MP’s including Hastings and Rye’s Sally-Ann Hart say they are ‘disappointed’ their constituencies have been placed in Tier 2 under the Government’s latest measures to combat Coronavirus. Mrs Hart, along with Eastbourne MP Caroline Ansell, Wealden’s Nus Ghani and Huw Merriman who represents Bexhill and Battle say: “We share the disappointment of residents who […]
Old town homeware shop A G Hendy & Co, that offers practical plastic free, eco-friendly goods for the home, has been named on the shortlist of retailers in the running to be named Britain’s Best Small Shop of 2020. Owner Alastair Hendy says the shop: “Celebrates domesticity, taking the customer on a sensory journey in-store,” […]
The controversial removal of benches from Hastings town centre last month was a considered and deliberate action by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) to reclaim an area of the town that had become ‘rude, lewd and intimidating’. That’s what Councillor Paul Barnett told fellow councillors last night when HBC met as a full council for the […]
For years, the so-called ‘Bunker’ in Rocklands Caravan Park has been, according to many of its critics, disfiguring the East Hill and Hastings Country Park. Now a retrospective planning application is generating fresh opposition – Bernard McGinley explains… Next week it was hoped that Hastings councillors would once again be discussing the ‘Bunker’ which critics […]
An East Sussex start-up has secured substantial investment to bring hyperfast full-fibre broadband to Hastings. Billed as the most profound infrastructure advancement to benefit residents and businesses in recent years, Eastbourne based Lightning Fibre will build, install and operate the new full-fibre network, starting with Eastbourne and then Hastings. The new hyperfast network will deliver […]
In May owners of a dangerous building in Battle Road were taken to court and given 16 weeks to repair or demolish the structure – their time is up so what happens next? A spokesman for Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has told us: “The council is aware that seemingly no action has been taken by […]
A prominent Hastings site is included in ambitious plans the Co-op has unveiled to open more than three stores each week until December. Parkstone Parade, just off Parkstone road and close to the Ark Alexandra Academy, has been chosen by the convenience retailer to be the site of one of its new stores. Nationally the plans […]
The future of Debenhams may well already have been decided as reports surface today that those bidding to take on the struggling department store chain were asked to submit their bids by 5pm yesterday (September 1st). Investment bank Lazard is overseeing the department store’s sale process after Debenhams filed for administration in April. There are […]
