Are new charging points for electric cars being installed on the seafront actually up to the job? Owners of electric vehicles have been in touch to say the points that have been installed by Hastings Borough Council, combined with the restrictions on how long you can park beside one, make them virtually useless. Paul Cockerton […]
Last year then council leader Peter Chowney said climate change was “The biggest challenge facing the council.” Just 15 months after passing what was seen to be a radical climate emergency motion and appointing a special cabinet member with responsibility for climate change there’s grave concern this week that Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is back […]
Maya Evans is leading Hastings Borough Council’s efforts on tackling climate change. Here she explains what she hopes can be achieved locally for the borough to become carbon neutral by 2030. She concedes however that the council may have high ambitions but as things stand its powers to achieve those ambitions are limited. I am […]
Earlier this week Hastings’ Green party issued a press release critical of Hastings Borough Council’s ruling Labour group over what they perceived to be the council’s lack of action over climate change, even going so far as to brand last year’s climate emergency motion as ‘tokenism’. Today, almost exactly a year on from the passing […]
Hand-embroidered ties were delivered to the five members of the East Sussex Pension Committee (ESPC) earlier this week alongside an invitation for them to stop funding climate change and join the fossil fuel divestment ‘club’. The ties, which have been embroidered by members of the Climate Craftivists, each bear the Divest East Sussex logo and […]
Increased VAT on solar panels is undermining the renewable energy sector at a time when young people are demanding action to stop global warming says Peter Chowney. Mr Chowney – leader of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) and Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Hastings – has hit out at the tax hike saying it puts Hastings’ […]
Local Greens say they’re ‘disappointed’ at the borough council’s ‘lack of ambition’ when it comes to fighting climate change. And Hastings and Rye Green Party is also unhappy that despite the impetus for the motion coming from them in the first place, neither the motion, nor the proposer, council leader Peter Chowney, or seconder, Councillor Maya […]
