Hastings Green Party has called on Hastings Borough Council (HBC) to properly scrutinise the work of regeneration company SeaChange Sussex. A representative from Hastings Council sits on the board of SeaChange, along with representatives from Rother District and East Sussex County Councils. According to Green councillor Julia Hilton not one of the councils has ever […]
What is seen by some Hastings councillors as a ‘backward step’ has been welcomed by the local MP as an opportunity to find, ‘more effective ways of tackling the problem of rogue landlords’. Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) application for a new selective licensing scheme has been refused by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities […]
A report recommending the terms of lease and management of the controversial Bale House in Hastings Country park was unanimously approved by Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) cabinet when it met on Wednesday. The single storey visitor centre, which took seven years to build and went massively over-budget, eventually costing £1.1million, has been the subject of […]
The Bale House, the controversial new Country Park visitor centre that has cost more than £1.1m and taken seven years to come to fruition will open, at last, later this summer. Described in January by Councillor Andy Batsford as a, “…great public asset for the town,” the building will be up for discussion tomorrow tonight […]
Plans that could see more than £100m flooding in to Hastings’ to regenerate the town and its economy were approved this week. On Tuesday it was announced that Hastings’ had secured a £24.3 million share of a £3.6 billion pot of money offered to 101 towns across the UK through the government’s Towns Fund Town […]
Labour politicians in Hastings appear reluctant to accept any responsibility for the losses suffered by the party at the local elections held a month ago today. Instead local Labour cites ‘national trends’ for its poor showing which included the loss of four seats to the Tories and one to the Greens at borough level and […]
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is looking for volunteers to sit on its grants advisory panel. The panel gives advice to the Hastings and St Leonards Foreshore Trust – of which the Council is the Trustee – on how surplus income from the Foreshore Trust should be distributed. Councillor Trevor Webb chairs the committee and says: […]
A wall of silence has greeted any attempts to gain some clarity on an internal row over the rights of transgender people to ‘self-identify’ that is said to be tearing Hastings Labour Party apart. Last Wednesday, newly elected Labour Councillor Claire Carr, attending her first meeting, refused to back a member of the old guard–Councillor […]
At last night’s (May19th) Annual Meeting of Hastings Borough Council committee appointments were made. Here we bring you a full list of committees and which councillors sit on each one. Cabinet: Labour: Kim Forward – Leader of the Council and Strategy and Partnership Working. Paul Barnett – Deputy Leader and Regeneration Portfolio Holder Peter Chowney […]
