The Country Park’s “brilliant new environmentally sustainable community facility,” that council officers say will, “become a major attraction for people from Kent, Sussex and beyond” will cost local council tax payers an EXTRA £340,000 bringing the total cost of the project to over £1.1m – almost three times the original estimate. Papers published from last […]
Did Hastings councillors give their officials a blank cheque to finish controversial straw bale project at any cost? Additional costs being incurred by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) to complete and then to run the new visitor centre in Hastings Country Park are not being released to the public! After Monday night’s cabinet meeting we emailed […]
“I thank – from behind tears of joy – everyone who has helped in this campaign…” Michael Moor Chair, The Friends of Hastings Country Park. Officially the borough council’s decision to abandon its plans to site solar panels on Hastings Country Park and Nature Reserve was down to a ‘review’ being carried out by the […]
There will be no solar panels on Hastings Country Park and Nature Reserve, Hastings Borough Council has announced this afternoon it is abandoning plans first put forward in January last year. It was at a council cabinet meeting in January 2019 that councillors agreed to spend more than £80,000 investigating the possibility of housing ground […]
Work on the new £660,000 visitor centre for Hastings Country Park has ground to a halt during the current Covid-19 ‘lockdown’. It had originally been hoped the new centre might have opened during this year but that now looks unlikely. Before work stopped the building has reached the point where the walls are up, the […]
Darren McCann lives close to Hastings Country Park and counts himself lucky that within minutes of leaving his home he is in a place of beauty and tranquility where he can escape from the pressures of everyday life and of a world in ‘lockdown’. Here he explains why he loves it so much. This lockdown […]
…visitors to the Country Park face being criminalised for harmless activities such as wandering off the path, and picking blackberries… By Bernard McGinley New bylaws are proposed by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) for the Country Park to replace those that have been in force since 1974. This process began slowly in 2014-15 and is […]
Hastings Country Park is the best site in the UK for the rare plant Dumortier’s Liverwort. That’s according to a survey on behalf of Natural England that says the plant, known in Latin as, Dumortiera hirsuta, is thriving because of improved management of Fairlight Place Farm at Hastings Country Park. Half of all England’s Dumortier’s Liverwort is […]
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has confirmed it is now looking at just two possible sites to install solar panels both on Hastings Country Park having discounted another two. One of the sites still in contention is the field to the south of the milking parlour; the other is the former helipad site. It’s almost a […]
