If they are serious about keeping Hastings Pier in community ownership then Friends of Hastings Pier (FOHP) have until next week to submit a business plan and lodge an ‘expression of interest’ with the estate agents managing its sale. In an email from FOHP this week, members were told: “Things have moved quicker than we […]
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is neither supporting nor opposing proposals for a harbour and marina development at the eastern end of the Hastings seafront says council leader Peter Chowney. Council officers did accompany the developers to a meeting with government officials to request government funding for feasibility and associated studies. But as yet, no decision […]
Some of the most deprived areas of Hastings are set to received a boost as part of a £7.4m initiative part-funded by the European Union. Money will come from the Community Led Local Development (CLLD) scheme, with the Hastings version called CHART CLLD, with CHART standing for Connecting Hastings and Rother Together. In his monthly […]
Labour’s Peter Chowney & the Conservative’s Rob Lee speak to Hastings In Focus Elections to Hasting Borough Council (HBC) will take place in a month’s time, on May 3. Changes to the boundaries of council wards mean that all seats are up for grabs this time round and it promises to be a hard fought […]
Wealden District Council’s plans to object to any planning application that resulted in additional traffic movements within a 50 mile radius of Ashdown Forest was a story that attracted a lot or reader interest last month. Wealden is concerned that traffic pollution is damaging the forest and sees it’s plan to stifle development as a way of […]
It’s a big day for Hollington United tomorrow and it’s got nothing to do with the performance of the club’s teams on the football pitch. At 8am tomorrow the club, which prides itself in being at the heart of the community, opens the doors of its community cafe for the first time. The cafe is […]
Continued challenges to decisions made by Hastings Borough Council over the future of Ecclesbourne Glen are ‘time-consuming, costly and unproductive’ a council official said this week. Kevin Boorman was speaking after hearing that Hastings Borough Council (HBC) had won an appeal against the Information Commissioner at an Information Rights Tribunal in Brighton. The council had […]
When will the custody suite at Hastings Police station re-open? Some reckon the more pertinent question is ‘will the custody suite at Hastings police station ever re-open?’. While the fate of a police custody suite – the area of a police station where prisoners are held while awaiting interview or court appearance – might seem […]
The West Hill lift in Hastings has had to close because of emergency engineering works. A building behind a trackside wall had started to collapse, and could have fallen onto one of the lift cars. Council spokesman Kevin Boorman explained today: “We are very disappointed that we have had to close the West Hill lift. […]
