Local election battlegrounds 3 – the candidates are revealed

The full list of candidates for May 3’s elections to Hastings Borough Council was unveiled earlier this week. As a result of boundary changes the whole council is up for election and therefore Hastings voters will be electing two councillors in each of the town’s 16 council wards. The Conservatives, Green Party and Labour are […]

Local election battlegrounds 2 – Commercial property, to buy or not to buy

Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) policy of buying up commercial property to generate income has turned out to be a divisive one. Somewhat surprisingly perhaps, while the concept is being championed by the ruling Labour group the Conservative group on the council thinks it’s just a bad idea, even though it currently brings HBC over £2million […]

Labour’s team working to retain control of borough council

In its bid to retain control of Hastings Borough Council at the elections on May 3 the Labour party recently announced its list of candidates who will be standing at the election. A series of minor boundary changes for several wards in Hastings means that all 16 wards will have elections for two councillors. Local […]